Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going. After celebrating Independence Day in Battle Harbor with cannon, rifle, shotgun, pistol, flashlight and races in rowboats, Commander Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic explorer...
...spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog), in whose food canal lived an opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live things-centre on an inverted, deaf, lethargic, odorless, whistling sloth; the falling of jungle leaves; beachcombing at midnight...
...gloves, 8 pairs; camera films, 141 packages; men's shirts, 45; overcoats, 5; shirt-waists, 5; vests, 3; clothes, 2 suits; bath rugs, 3; sweaters, 6; tuxedo suits, 1; men's hose, 1; American flags, 2; lace curtains, 3 pairs; revolver, 1; Winchester rifles, 2; Ithaca shotgun, 1; L. C. Smith shotgun, 1; towels, 1; rubber sheet, 1; scissors, 7; dress goods, 2 pieces; Artlex collars, 11; fur neck pieces, 2; ear syringe, 1; fur gloves, 10 pairs; muffler, 1; victrola needles, 1 box; portfolio, 1; ladies' shoes, 1 pair; dress suit, 1; tuxedo coat, 1; pajamas...
...Rhode Island. Only the boldest, hairy-chested sailors may apply to man these ships. On the smaller fry, motor-boats that steal out at the whisper of a radio, there is a place for hard, ham-fisted nondescripts who can plant a heavy blow and shoot a sawed-off shotgun. Gunmen out of work will find employment here, for close encounters are frequent. It is a glamorous life, full of the very smoke and reek which fired a Captain Singleton or the famous Kidd himself...
...fairer and more satisfactory than the old essay type. "The clever student whose verbose knowledge of a few topics can be stretched to appear to advantage, whatever question may be asked, is left stranded", he said. "With the new examinations he is shooting with a rifle instead of a shotgun". "The Purdue Exponent...