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Word: shooting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three attackmen, who are supposed to shoot most of the goals. They are not allowed to stray into their own defense zone...

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: Lacrosse Is No Longer an Indian Tribal Contest | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

Pembroke shot and seldom missed; Radcliffe seldom got the chance to shoot. Passes didn't connect and plays didn't materialize. The second game, played in alternate 16 minute halves with the first, turned out to be a similar rout. Ellen Guild and Frances Buhrig scored all 18 'Cliffe points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Outswims Pembroke, But Basketball Squads Lose | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...most incredible scene in the picture is when Frank James, armed with a battered Winchester, confronts the man who shot his brother in the back. The most feared desperado of the Old West glares a vengeful glare at his quavering victim and snarls in deadly tones: "I could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin to his fate...

Author: By J. CHEEVER Loophole, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

...completely mastered the one-handed hook shot, flipped while taking a stride away from the basket, as Tony Lavelli. His detractors pointed out that he was slow afoot and weak on defense, but Yalemen replied: "All Galli-Curci could do was sing." Tony Lavelli could shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baskets in 4/4 Time | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Some of these can be used in convenient liquid form. When such fuels hit water, they decompose it violently by uniting with its oxygen, giving off heat and a large volume of hydrogen gas. The combustion chamber is shaped so as to make the expanding water-and-gas mixture shoot out the rear opening as a high-speed jet. The reaction from this drives the engine (and the torpedo) forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underwater Jet | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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