Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Automobile headlights threw a low glare over the Army polo field at Havana as Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh settled himself in the Spirit of St. Louis in the blackness of the wee small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis...
...producing the official German account of the execution: ". . . Soldiers brought Fraulein Cavell from a neighboring house. Her eyes were bandaged and a black veil was placed over her head. While being led to the wall she tottered and fell in a faint, whereupon an officer, kneeling to aim, shot her. . . . She never faced the firing squad...
...this meet and in winning these events, he scored over a third of the University's total, became the only double winner of the meet, and proved beyond a doubt that he was the best middle distance runners of the three colleges. C. A. C. Eastman '24 in the shot put and John Marshall '25 in the weight throw were the other Crimson winners...
Following is the list of events, in each of which medals will be awarded to the winners: 40-yard dash, 300-yard, 600-yard, 1000-yard, mile, 45-yard high hurdles, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, and shot...
...time and again in a beautiful exhibition of coordination and team work. Both forward lines were used and proved equally efficient in driving the puck home. The work of the Crimson defense men was of a similar high grade, the Nichols forwards breaking through for a shot only occasionally...