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Word: shooting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before each game administer drugs and powerful stimulants to the men, so that their nervous energy will shoot up to the highest possible pitch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESE DEGENERATE TIMES | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...shoot an arrow from a six-foot yew-bow, to hit a golf ball, to throw a baseball, to cast a heavy fishing-slug for distance in the surf -manly exercises all. But does the missile fly farthest from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unique Contest | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...Shoot them in the head, Shoot them in the feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Another Strike | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...Shoot them in the dinner bucket; How are they going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Another Strike | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...time in the City of Denver, while I was Vice President, a big husky policeman kept following me around until I asked him what he was doing. He said he was guarding my person. I said: 'Your labor is in vain. Nobody was ever crazy enough to shoot at a Vice President. If you will go, away and find somebody to shoot, at me, I'll go down in history as being the first Vice President who ever attracted enough attention to have even a, crank shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Denver | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

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