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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swann's sharp shot from left lane eluded the Cantab goalee and tickled the net for the opening tally. Clark next outwitted the schoolboy defense, swerved to the left, and shoved the puck in backward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS TAKE MEASURE OF CAMBRIDGE LATIN SIX | 1/13/1927 | See Source »

...heavy and rugged, while Coady, Howard, and Stanley, alternate defense men, carry plenty of weight and strength. Stanley has seen service as a wing in the last two games: he is not quite as hard checking as his fellow defense men and is a fast skater and an excellent shot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HANOVER SEXTET TO INVADE ARENA | 1/11/1927 | See Source »

...owed Buddington money for a long time, Recently, intoxicated, he tried to collect it with a pistol in his hand . . . "or something shiny, something that looked just like a pistol," the woman declared when she had him arrested. The masked men took him several miles out of town and shot him to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LYNCHING: In Toombs | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...temples. Stalwart youths pierced veins and painted in blood devout ideographic prayers for the Tenno.* Finally Baron Mansasuke Ikeda, lifelong companion of the Tenno, set up a portrait of the "Heavenly King" in his house near Tokyo, cried, "I followed you in life, I follow you in death," and shot himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Mourning Squeaks' | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Died. Rigby Wile, 16, son of Ira Solomon Wile, M. D., famed psychiatrist-child specialist; in his father's home in Manhattan; by self-inflicted rifle shot, because he found life "futile." Said Dr. Wile: "I have no idea what led him to such a philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 10, 1927 | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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