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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What would MIle. Lenglen do, when Miss Browne managed to return a difficult shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...staccato voices in their tails urging their legs to greater labor. Then open water began to show. There was a scorpion's length of it between the two when Cornell-her eight gigantic hearties bursting from a last effort which her slightly lighter California guests could not match-shot across the line, winner of a crew race that promised brave things for Cornell later on at the intercollegiate races on the Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Cayuga | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...exciting!" When MIle. Lenglen considered that a rally had lasted long enough, she hit the ball a little harder than other woman in the world can hit it and relieved Miss Browne of further worry upon the point in question. Often, too, Miss Browne managed to return some difficult shot only to have it called out, and on these occasions Mlle. Lenglen sometimes pointed out to the referee that she wished her friend to have the point. In one unfortunate game two of Suzanne's drives hit the net cord. Miss Browne won this game. The rest, and the match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politesse | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

Died. Onetime Deputy Veshapeli, of the Georgian Republic;* in Paris, shot by one Arphandil, a Georgian, who, apprehended, said: "I consider Veshapeli the murderer of all my family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 21, 1926 | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...appetite for goats. For seven years the Black God had padded on cat feet over 350 square miles of Western Garhwal; in that time he had killed 125 humans, snatching them in village streets, at the very doors of houses. Sixteen Indian shimkaris, paid by the government, had shot at him and missed; gun traps, arsenic, cyanide and prayer had not hurt him. Twice he was caught?once in a trap, once in a cave. He escaped. The hills were poisoned with strychnine. He lived. It was then that the natives declared that God alone could kill the killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Leopard | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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