Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some moments later Engineer Vilchis was shot down as he stood, silent, expressionless, against the wall. Then Humberto Projuarez was led out. As the rifles cracked, Death came for a third time and took young Projuarez, perhaps, to join his priestly brother...
...Norris, fundamentalist extraordinary, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Tex., returned to national news dispatches last week by a means not even hinted at in his favorite Genesis. Save for local items, Dr. Norris had been out of print since a year ago last summer when he shot and killed one Dexter E. Chipps while the latter was calling on him (TIME, July...
...relate their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make the best of it, send their pupils after moonbeams, chimera and the blood-sweating behemoth...
Lions, elephants, gnus, water buffalo, pythons, a rhinoceros and a golden-haired baboon-Frederick Beck Patterson, 35-year-old President of the National Cash Register Co., reached the U. S. last week tanned and a little thin, and told how he had shot them with camera and gun during five months big game hunting in Central and East Africa. When he ended he had a ton of animal skins and heads and 18,000 ft. of cinema films plus 400 still photographs (he was in the 15th Photographic Air Service Unit during the War). That was too much...
...this as well as other movements for the more general dissemination of knowledge, Harvard has been prompt to make itself available. Lacking whatever exotic qualities make a great college picture, the University may give a more important account of itself when the big scenes are shot in the buildings on Oxford Street...