Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeds of republicanism were sown in him when, once a year, the emperor and his suite of aristocrats distinguished soldiers and statesmen came to shoot over the Moravian estate. This company were in the habit of leaving their costly cloaks, which represented a fortune to the peasant, in his father's cottage. While the shoot was on the peasants used to gather round to admire the resplendent garments, but little Tommy Masaryk alone refused to look at them, saying: " I do not like to see those things." Later, explaining his feelings, he said: "I felt there was something radically wrong...
...Hagen and Sarazen, present and past open champions, were defeated in match and medal play in two days of special golf for the Sir Stanley Cochrane Purse by Jock Hutchison and Jim Barnes, champions of England and America respectively in 1921. Hagen and Sarazen sailed two days later to shoot for the British open title at Troon...
...spent in vain, for it was much improved combination that finished a full three lengths ahead yesterday. Prominent among the favorable points in the bearing of the crew was its full spacing, the boat riding well between strokes even under pressure of a high beat. An improvement in the shoot-away of the hands was also noticeable, making possible a stroke of 40 as the shell shot off the starting line...
...Polytechnic Institute. On May 10 the West Point and University of Wisconsin teams, will oppose the Crimson. At a somewhat later date not vet definitely settled matches for the championship of the R. O. T. C. Field Artillery Units from all over the country will be held. A triangular shoot with Yale and Princeton is also being planned...
That, says Mr. Broun, is quite too bad. School affairs are not frivolous. It is as important, he implies, to train the young idea in the first place as to shoot it later. And there ought to be more noise about the whole business. He recalls somebody's visit to Copenhagen and his unidentified surprise at seeing a parade of school children behind a brass band and surrounded by a shouting populace, and all to celebrate the graduation of a high school class. It does not appear, however, that Mr. Broun's in- formant understood Danish...