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Word: shooted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rifle Club members shoot the Springfield government service rifle at a stationary bullseye, in contrast to the Gun Club, which shoots moving clay pigeons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMBERSHIP IN RIFLE CLUB IS OPENED TO CANDIDATES | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...President Coolidge took leave of Wisconsin in three ways: He invited the newsgatherers and photographers to watch him shoot clay pigeons (29 out of 37); he arranged for a simple farewell speech on the steps of the high school in Superior; he fished in the law-immune trout pools of the Pierce Estate every last moment that he could, letting others pack the trunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Climax | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...taken for granted that the Lombardo killing was retaliation for the death, two months ago of Frankie Uale (Yale), Brooklyn gangster (TIME, July 9). But, as in some 215 other Chicago murders during the past two years, no conviction was probable. Chicago police philosophy is to let the thugs shoot each other up and devil take the hindmost innocent bystander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Yale Avenged | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Clearly Edward of Wales must be prepared to sit in informal judgment upon the great, sporting issue of Rhinocerophobes v. Rhinocerophiles. It was unthinkable that he himself should shoot a rhinoceros out of season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rhinoceroses | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Amazon). By way of climax, they skirted the edge of the Great Pigmy Forest, one of the gruesome wonders of the world. Appalling, it is a place from which dense, choking creepers and great trees shut out the sun. In the gloom spiteful brown pigmies plant poisoned stakes and shoot poisoned arrows, to keep out both white men and black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Touches! | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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