Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, it was that ebullient man from Idaho, Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, who fired the loudest shot last week. Said he: "What the report at Geneva relative to our joining the Court means, stripped of all unnecessary verbiage is that the United States must change its reservations or consent to a construction of them which will emasculate or wholly destroy them. This brings the whole subject up anew for consideration...
...Peking at the time of the Boxer massacres. Later he entered the World War a Colonel, came out a Major General. At Soissons. St. Mihiel, and in the Meuse-Argonne he commanded brilliantly the First Division, never admitting that it could be "held up by machine gun fire" or "shot to pieces," so long as he had his artillery sputtering. Said he: "Fire is the secret of fighting. If you have enough you can take any enemy position. Nothing else will do it. Men's bodies can't for they will be shot." Therein is a mechanistic philosophy...
Practice will continue until late in November, when a general-tall meet will conclude the season. Candidates are asked to report with equipment ready or work at the following hours; for the Shot Put 1.30 to 2.00 o'clock; Discus, 2 to 2:30 o'clock; Javelin, 2.30 to 3: Pote Vault, 3 o'clock; all Runners, 3 o'clock...
...morning of April 15, 1920, a paymaster and guard walked through the streets of South Braintree, Mass., carrying a shoe factory's payroll of $15,000. They never reached the factory. Two men, apparently Italians, shot them to the death, grabbed the money, escaped in an automobile...
...invited to identify them if he could. Frantic, he not only identified the men at once but begged the police to give him a gun that he might shoot them. A few hours afterwards the authorities announced that the three prisoners had been shot by the police as they endeavored to escape...