Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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River Tragedy. One morning last week the Kuang Yuang, a river troopship loaded with munitions and 1,500 mercenaries lay at anchor off Kiukiang on the Yangtze. The soldiers, allegedly adherent to Sun Chuan-feng, dozed, gambled, chomped a frugal meal of rice, fired an occasional shot into the air or at a passing sampan to while away the time...
...friendship. Both were too individualistic. Eventually they quarreled, called each other names, separated, but this was after Frick, with the aid of some Carnegie men-Charles M. Schwab, William Ellis Corey and James Gayley-had smashed the bloody, massacring Homestead Strike of 1892. In the riots Anarchist Alexander Berkman shot Frick, stabbed him thrice...
There came to light last week a letter revealing one of the cruelest tricks one civilized being could well play upon another. It was a letter left by the late Professor Paul Kammerer, famed biologist, who ascended a small hill near Vienna last month and shot himself. For a year the scientific world had reverberated with Professor Kammerer's report that, by experiment upon frogs, he had proved to his immensely critical satisfaction that acquired characteristics, such as the loss of an arm, blotches on the skin, could be passed from one generation to another. It was contrary...
...lower slopes of these mountains are inhabited by goats and various types of bear. The former were found to be very plentiful and many were photographed at close quarters, while a few of them were shot for trophies...
...single goal for the University was made by L. T. Driggs '28, late in the second half on a clever-corner shot. Driggs and McKinnon were the outstanding players for Harvard. Jones of Amherst scored three times during the game on last running kicks...