Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bell Buchanan. For two hours and a half the engagement continued. Captain Buchanan fell, wounded in the chest and arms, and died some hours later. Fourteen Nicaraguans were killed. The rest scattered, but not until Private Marvin Andrew Jackson, U. S. M. C., had been instantly killed by a shot through the brain...
...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
Notably absent from play were Miss Joyce Wethered, champion 1922, 1924, 1925, and Miss Cecil Leitch, champion 1914, 1920, 1921, 1926. Miss Leitch, however, marched with the "brolly" brigade, carrying her shelter in her left hand. Down from the Irish skies shot a bolt of Irish lightning, ran down the spines of Miss Leitch's umbrella, knocked her flat on the grass, put her arm out of golfing commission for a fortnight...
Clifford Hoffman, counted on by his University of Southern California mates to place first in both the shot and discus, came second to Gerken, California captain in the former event, but did over 147 feet with the metal plate to lead the field...
Next to the surprise caused by Spencer's failure to lead his heat in the quarter, perhaps the greatest upset provided by yesterday's batting was the elimination of Anderson of Cornell in the shot put. An unheralded Bates runner...