Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncommonly cool, several detectives drew steady beads on Clayton Clawson with their revolvers. "Don't shoot!" warned Clawson. "You'll all go to hell along with me!" Pow, pow, pow. Down went Clayton Clawson, neatly pinked in arms and legs. The bottle crashed to the floor, where it gave off an odor of household ammonia...
Last week in Manhattan Professor Alexander Klemin, director of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, informed members of the Electrochemical Society of the present progress and problems of rocketry. He pointed out that the burned gas molecules shoot out of a rocket's combustion chamber at 3,000 to 4,000 ft. per sec. A rocket traveling at this speed would be 100% efficient, since all the recoil force of the molecules is turned into forward thrust...
...first the driver was the only man in charge. Then, as the wave of highway robbery began, there was an armed guard as well. Both men were generally the highest type of western dare-devil-the driver invariably out to break the speed record; the guard ready to shoot it out with any number...
...perspiration from his brow, fidgeting nervously with the golden head on his cane. Finally he walked up the stairs to the Sanctum. I could hear him moving about, piling the furniture before the door, and locking the windows. At length he called down to me through the copy shoot...
...weighing less than 130 pounds who have a yen to shoot orders at a boatload of sweating oarsmen are invited by Coach Whiteside to attend the first meeting of his school for coxswains tonight in the Upper room of the Union at 7 o'clock. Whiteside says that ambitious lightweights will be taught enough about commands, balance, bladework, and tiller-handling to enable them to take out a shell without previous experience...