Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maharaja was a great sports man, a fact which made him particularly popular in England. He not only hunted big game in his native jungles, but shot grouse and partridge in Scot- land, played polo and was an enthusiastic cricketer...
...anger of the populace was fanned until it was afire. Clashes occurred. Foreigners were fired upon, one American, Dentist Thomas G. McMartin, was wounded and his horse shot from under him. U. S., British and Italian warships sailed to the port, landed a force of marines to cooperate with the Japanese and other troops in protecting foreign life, property and the essential public services. Machine guns cleared the streets and, after dark, armored cars patrolled the thorough- fares. Meantime, a general strike had been ordered, numbers grew from a few thousand to a quarter of a million. Those Chinese against...
...Brigham Young and others, scouring the U. S., England, Wales, Denmark, won many true believers and pious pro-creators, mostly women. Shiploads swarmed to Nauvoo. Returning from one proselyting campaign, Young found the Prophet shot dead by some Illinoisians who had chosen to regard him as a promulgator of "abominations and whoredoms...
Harvard, however, will probably get a first in the shot put through the efforts of Captain Dunker. Bench of Yale will be his most dangerous opponent. The latter, though, does not specialize in the shot, but in the javelin. After establishing a new dual meet spear record against Princeton with a throw of 186 feet 6 3-8 inches, Bench received the Intercollegiate gold medal at Philadelphia. Cheek of Harvard should be able to displace the Eli's second man, Davison. The Crimson football captain elect can hurl the javelin two or three yards further than his rival
Three records were broken in the class A fighting. Walsh of Brockton ran the 220 in 23 seconds, Sundstrom of Brockton ran the 120 yard low hurdles in 14 and four-fifth seconds, and Vinal of Lowell put the shot 43 feet...