Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardy, mentally alert subscribers want this crutch? Does Subscriber Kastner shoot squirrels with a shotgun? Does he, hale and hearty, insist on eating only predigested foods? Does he wear water-wings when swimming? Does he use a bushel basket for a baseball glove...
...second Mrs. Akeley, was Miss Mary Lee Jobe, stalwart mountain climber (for whom was named Jobe Mountain in the Canadian Rockies). She married Explorer Akeley in October, 1924, he being 60, she 38 (TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, MILESTONES). This will be her first trip to Africa; she will shoot only with a camera...
...first Mrs. Akeley was Delia J. Denning of Beaver Dam, Wis. She accompanied Mr. Akeley to Africa in 1905, three years after their marriage; again in 1909, when they met Theodore Roosevelt's safari. She learned to shoot expertly, killed the biggest elephants both trips. On the second trip, she saved her husband's life on the "elephant-infested" slopes of Mt. Kenya where he had been gored by a bull pachyderm, abandoned by his blacks. In 1923 Explorer Akeley went again to Africa. She did not accompany him but obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went...
...inconceivable that any such theory can justify Mr. Cram's design. If the plea is that the pugilists and the jockeys have been turned into stained glass by an angry God, it is rather hard on sports. If the plea is that churchmen play billiards and shoot at pigeons, it is superfluous. They do, and they do many other things that ought not to be represented on cathedral windows...
That the Gun Club will take part in an intercollegiate Trap Shoot to be held about May 1 at the Rockaway Hunt Club, Ceaderhurst, Long Island, was recently announced. It is expected that teams from Yale, Williams. Dartmouth and several other colleges will also take part in the meet. Every year the Rockaway Hunt Club gives a series of shoots to which Harvard and other colleges are invited and last year C. P. Day '27, the captain of the Gun Club team made the highest score of the competition...