Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would not confess his name but was proved to have shot and killed from the desert A. G. Elliott, air mechanician for famed British flying ace Sir Alan ("England-to-Australia-and-Return") Cobham (TIME...
...hero, he enraged such serious-minded Communists as Lenin and Trotsky by light-heartedly dragging off to his bed and board a lady undeniably fair but old enough to be his mother. The great Lenin, scandalized at his philandering in an hour of crisis, very nearly had the hero shot, and Leon Trotsky was especially loud in demanding his execution. Next day a mob of sailors from the Baltic Fleet sought out M. Trotsky, commanded his secretary to tell him to come out and be drubbed. No weakling, Leon Davidovich Trotsky (née Bronstein) rushed forth, stood with folded...
...possesses sufficient nimbleness to enable him to move quickly from his normal position in front of the cage to the side boards. His dashes down the ice are largely confined to taking the puck to mid-ice for a pass to a cleverer teammate or to a long shot at the opposing net. Clark displays on the ice all the same qualities that make him a feared halfback on the football team. He will also rest for a few weeks before reporting for hockey, but by mid-season the chunky halfback should be at his best defensive form. Down...
...line ran the Crimson backs ragged to score twice. Fletcher and Sleath were the goal-shooters, both taking passes from Ives in sharp scrimmages to slip the ball past Thomas into the Harvard cage. Early in the second quarter Carr counted on a beautiful kick from the sidelines that shot into the goal at an acute angle. At the first-half intermission the Blue...
...scrimmage in front of the Harvard goal in the second period ended when Ashley suddenly shot the ball into the cage for his team's first point. In the third period Chittenden, charging upon Goalkeeper Salmon, who was holding the ball, drove him back into the goal for a score, and with the elevens deadlocked four minutes before the final whistle, Everett and Anderson scored in quick succession...