Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Conant was one of the most brilliant aviators in the service. He had flown 1,300 hours in 38 different types of airplanes; he had been shot from a catapult; he was one of the first 25 men to operate from the deck of an airplane carrier. The Navy mourned him, remembered that only two months before another courageous aviator, Commander John Rodgers, had crashed to his death in the Delaware River...
...saved the life of the insane Englishwoman, Miss Violet Gibson, who thrust a revolver at his face and actually shot away the tip of his nose (TIME, April 19) by ordering the crowd which would have lynched her to disperse peaceably...
shortly after the start of the game, Packard, Tiger center shot the sphere past Thomas from the middle of a scrimmage in front of the University goalposts. For the rest of the half the play was scoreless, although the Tiger, forward line had frequent shots at the goal. Thomas starred, making great stops of these bids for scores...
Stewart, substituting for McNear in the Princeton skirmish line, got the ball near midfield in the third period, and dodging several Crimson defense men, dribbled the spheroid down the sideline, and suddenly sent a aizzling shot at an acute angle that skidded past Thomas and into the Harvard not for the second Tiger score. Stewart later, in the fourth quarter, scored form a free kick, after Crooks had fouled by failing on the ball...
...fourth period Packard sent a shot into the goal which Thomas partially blocked, but the ball slipped from his hands, and rolled into...