Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...socialites of the Royal Automobile Club fought a successful nation-wide battle to eliminate speed traps as "unfair and un-British." Discreetly from sources close to R.A.C. last week came threats: "It may become necessary to organize trigger squads of from 30 to 40 cars of air gunners and shoot up all the beacons in London." From his Ministry of Transport publicity-courting Major Hore-Belisha retorted, "We are rushing the construction of new beacons and will have installed 20,000 by Christmas...
...There are three major ionized layers. Their heights were obtained by noting the time required for radio echoes to return to Earth. As the signal frequency is stepped up, a "critical frequency" is usually found at which the signals shoot through a lower layer and bounce back from a higher, or escape into space. By this means density of ionization and fluctuations therein may be charted...
...down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...
...last mule the Army brought to Cambridge was a draft animal used for dumping the garbage at Fort Banks, but the megaphones seemed to remind him of the garbage cans, and he so persistently kept backing into them to be hitched up that we had to shoot him. But Pete's three years have taught him better than that...
...prisoners of New York County Penitentiary came one cheerful morning last week. A guard at the end of the long recreation room, through whose windows the sun laid a pattern of bright stripes, watched the frowzy prisoners shuffle from their cells to walk, talk, or to shoot dice for cigarets & candy...