Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approaching the animal it suddenly got up and charged them, but was shot before it reached the party. The other report said that the animal succeeded in wounding the Earl, that the Princess was forced to hide behind a sapling from where she managed (at close quarters) to shoot the hartebeest dead...
...vessel is the "Nereus", a steel schooner, square-rigged. It is 242 feet in length, 39 feet wide, with a depth of 23 feet. She has a gross tonnage of over 8,000 tons, and her masts, which are steel, shoot up 150 feet above the deck...
Youthful Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., fourth of his famed name, aspiring to be a newspaper builder of the nation, recently started two little gum-chewers' sheetlets on the Pacific Coast-The Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles) and The Illustrated Daily Herald (San Francisco). The young shoot of the Vanderbilt stock prepared to branch forth in a new direction with the traditional magnetism of his family. But the insidious voice of trouble raised its head. Could it be that he had not financed his venture in an entirely straight-and-narrow fashion ? Two ladies filed complaints against the Vanderbilt Newspapers...
...stage play proves more ingeniously effective than its original. A married couple spend their honeymoon serving on the same jury, whereupon the young wife is faced with the problem of passing judgment on a woman who shot the seducer whom the wife herself would have liked to shoot. It comes as a shock to her husband, with his hard and fast notions of right and wrong among women, that his wife is tarred with the same brush as the defendant, but he manages to get over it. The picture resorts to the favorite current system of wadding up a batch...
...balloon im equilibrium at a certain height. The: sun may come out, heat the hydrogen, contained within the gas, cause it to rise too high. The unskilled pilot: may let out gas in too much of a hurry, drop rapidly, throw out too- much ballast to check his descent, shoot up and lose more gas. "Bobbing up and down," he soon exhausts both gas and ballast and must land, throwing out food, instruments, clothing-a disgraceful sight. This year's elimination race was held under exceptionally favorable circumstances, with a steady, strong wind almost due north. Superiority in handling...