Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard may soon have a pistol team, sponsored by the Military Science Department of the University, it has been announced by Lieutenant Frank Camm, Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics. All students studying Military Science will have an opportunity, beginning next week, to shoot on a pistol range with regulation 45 calliber army pistols. It is expected that the pistol shooting will last for a period of from four to six weeks...
...National Corporation to become screen stars. Sometime next month, to be announced later by the sponsors of the plan, a make up man, a camera man, and a competent judge of photographic personality and studio requirements will come to Cambridge. These men will choose ten applicants whom they will "shoot" immediately. The films will then be sent to California for inspection and by the first of June it will be known whether or not any of the Harvard aspirants were accepted. The ten men who are finally selected will go to California...
...knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew out of the distance. A door clanged metallically and an indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz-- Hall! -- -- -- Had he slept...
...what particular spot, he did not say. The West is big; it begins, no one knows just where; it ends at the Pacific Ocean. Some say that the President is going West to placate the embattled farmers; others believe that he merely wants to fish. Also, said some, to shoot...
...Chicago, Capt. Barnett W. Harris of the Zoological Society and Field Museum, exhibited as part of his equipment for a collecting trip in Borneo and Java, some rifle cartridges, invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive...