Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week. They were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds: ". . . We believe that by the time the Republican Convention is at hand the leaders of the party...
George Eastman, going through Africa with gun and camera, came upon a white rhinoceros. The rare brute looked at him loweringly; he looked at the brute steadily along rifle sights; shot it dead...
...interior of Africa the fishing isn't much, so they tell elephant stories. The Uganda game department last fortnight told this one, protesting truthfulness. A hunter shot an elephant. It fell down a hill. Two other elephants of the herd following down the sharp declivity slipped in the trough made through the undergrowth, fell down the hill, hit the bottom with elephantine bumps, died. Hunters rarely kill three elephants with one shot...
...Shot put--Won by Hoffman (A); second, Houston (A); third H. Jackson (A). Distance, 49 ft. 1 1-2 in. (New Record...
...Saturday the Freshman track team suffered a 52 to 29 defeat in the first dual meet of the year. The first year men won three first places in the track events, but were overwhelmed by Andover's power in the weight and field events., being shut out in the shot put and pole vault...