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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Captain Burns, former Andover player and star of the Harvard quintet, has been playing brilliant basketball all season. He is an excellent shot, and is hard to stop when dribbling down the floor. He and Bailey have proved a dangerous combination when working together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1929 FIVE INVADES BULLDOG CAMP WITH HIGH HOPES FOR WIN | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...might wish to, but in my small acquaintance with it I have found much that is delightful. And it is for the sake of this much that we can overlook the even more which is relatively flat and unpointed. Miss Lowell in the course of her writing has shot a great many shafts, many of which have gone astray, but those that have found the mark have done it with a surpassing nicety and surety...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUNG ENGLISH POET DERIDES FORMLESS VERSE | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...native state, he refused to run for the U. S. Senate. George A. Pullman died and Mr. Lincoln became executor of his estate, enjoying a $400,000 fee and the presidency of the sleeping car company. He visited the Buffalo Exposition and witnessed a third presidential assassination, McKinley shot by Anarchist Czolgosz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...most interesting of European Royalties ... a daughter of the Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria, the famous philanthropist and eye doctor. . . . The Queen like all the Wittelsbachs is many-sided in her accomplishments: she is a clever violinist, a great reader, an admirable horsewoman, a good shot. . . . She is the only 'flying' Queen, and she thinks as little of flight as most people do of a ride in an omnibus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...Pound Shot Put--Pratt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOPES FOR TITLE GO WITH RUNNERS | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

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