Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more exciting game than many another. A big black-headed pin was appropriate to pierce the spot where a high Chinese official had his nose cut off and his eyes gouged out. Only a shining white-headed pin would do to show where a U. S. doctor was shot down trying to save some Chinese young women from rape. Finally a whole packet of pins could have been used up on Chinese towns where bloodshed, starvation and atrocious cruelty held sway. Shrewd pinners pierced the following places as most significant amid the rapidly unfolding Chinese civil war and Japanese intervention...
...Nanking soldiers gave provocation for this punishment by looting in the Japanese quarter and by raping Japanese women. The Nankingese declared that the Japanese had not only fired upon them without provocation but had seized Nanking Special Commissioner Tsai-Kung-Sze, cut off his nose, gouged out his eyes, shot him dead and burned down a building over...
...recently on their victorious march to Tsinan (see above) a group of Nationalist soldiers rushed for the women's dormitory of the mission school with intent to possess themselves of its occupants. When kindly Dr. Seymour sought to bar the dormitory door with his slender body the soldiers shot him down...
...issue of the meet was in doubt until the last event of the afternoon, the shot put, in which H. P. Nichols '31 heaved the 12-pound ball 44 feet 10 inches to clinch second place and the meet...
George Kuehn was the outstanding performer for the schoolboys, capturing two firsts with very little opposition. In the high jump, Kuehn cleared five feet eight inches with plenty to spare, and then came back to throw the shot 46 feet 11 1-2 inches to win the event with a two-foot leeway over his nearest competitor...