Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke, was stricken with mortification and dismay. Sticking your foot through the shell at rowing is equivalent to trampling a hound in a hunt or blowing off your neighbor's hat at a grouse shoot. Fortunately for Cambridge, a new shell had already been ordered. When a shell was damaged in 1906 just before Cambridge's race with (and victory over) Harvard, a new shell had to be built in four days...
...name with which to conjure down the very angels of Morality. For 30 years this sombre yet brilliant High Churchman has been what Britons call a "pillar of reform." During the War he showed the fine, tempered metal of the Cecils by learning to fly and how to shoot down the enemy. Not for nothing was his great ancestor, the First Earl of Salisbury (circa 1565-1612), the strongest and wisest counselor of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Last week with every blue drop of his Cecil blood a-boiling, Lord Hugh rose to confront and confound Winston Churchill...
...difficult to shoot a hole in the accuracy of the statement made by Mr. H. B. ('Yes, Mr. Swope, Sir') Swope, who has leaped at a bound from journalism to cigaret indorsing. 'Whenever I am tempted to eat between meals,' his signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes...
...Upton '31, the main object of Middlebury's defense, was unable to score. He played a fast game, but could not break away at any time long enough to shoot. J. S. Rex '31 and H. T. Wenner '30, Harvard's high scorers, played an excellent game throughout...
...Paraguay across the Pilcomayo River, the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine. Well, as soon as we got into Paraguay we came across a lot of forts, all filled with Bolivians. And these Bolivians-soldiers they were-said that if we didn't turn back they'd shoot us. So, you see, as far back as 1913 Bolivia had just quietly annexed a good piece of Paraguay as far down as the twenty-fourth parallel...