Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...good time since I came into the Army as the last five days. This is a magnificent school on a perfectly beautiful lake, and each time we go up we can look across the neck to the tall yellow sand-dunes on the shore of the gray Atlantic. The shooting from the plane is wonderful fun, and soon we are to shoot at targets towed behind other machines. The morale of the place is splendid, no roll-calls or formations or guards or drill, yet everything goes smoothly and everyone here is happy...
...trip down here takes about an hour. We have a lecture then, or fly if the weather is good till lunch-time, which is 10 o'clock for us. This morning we shot at the little balloons, two metres in diameter. This afternoon we do controlled shooting, that is we shoot one hundred cartridges at the balloon and then it is pulled down and the number of hits counted. Those who do well on their shooting get permissions after the course...
...spoil this play, the unplausibility surely would. The American girl, in a moderately daring boudoir scene, causes the German colonel's death. The next minute the American officer--a captive in the chateau--enshrouds the German lieutenant-colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that far yet. There is still hope...
...effect that record target practice will be held on the Wakefield Range next May, was approved yesterday by the Headquarters Office of the University Training Corps. On account of the difficulty of obtaining ammunition, it has finally been decided that only men in Military Science 1 will shoot the course. Those who are enrolled in the advanced class will accompany their organizations to the range, where they will be detailed for duty as instructors and possibly as markers...
...night, when the sailors won by a score of 3 to 1. The Navy septet showed good teamwork and were very fast at following up their shots, while the University players showed a lack of team-play, due to their long lay-off, and found it extremely difficult to shoot the puck past the clever Navy goal-guard...