Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 27, 1632, a considerable part of Monte Pozzolo shot with considerable and sudden velocity to the peaceful valley below, carrying with it Antronapiana, Swiss hamlet. The slide also dammed the valley stream and soon there arose the lake of Antrona. Last week, the waters of the lake subsided, uncovered some of the remains of the old village (there is a new one) of Antronapiana...
With Pratt, most of the field event points ought to fall to Harvard. The shot put is his strong point, and few can equal him in the javelin, discus, and hammer. The javelin event claims a new man, May, of whom Coach Farrell expects a good deal in the future. For the discus, Pratt will find keen competition in the person of Captain Brandenburg of Exeter. The schoolboy leader is also entered in the broad jump...
...colonial gin-mills. The beneficent oil company, which for several years has conspired with farmers and sign-painters to initiate passers-by into the historic past of Hicks Corners and Pumpkin Village is to be thwarted. The murderous motorist will no longer be reminded that Elljah Stockbridge was shot here by Indians, and joy-riders, pleasure bent, will forget that in this village Deacon Whosis was placed in the stocks for kissing his wife on Sunday. The whole restraining force of tradition will be incredibly weakened by the removal of these landmarks of a glorious past...
...Chancellor's announcement, sterling shot up from $4.82? to $4.84, which is not far enough from the gold par of $4.8665 to call for any great British export of the yellow metal...
Some time ago, the union miners in the bituminous coal fields enacted high-wage contracts with the operators. As a result, operating costs in the union soft coal fields shot up; and competition has proved difficult with the non-union fields of West Virginia, where lower costs enable operators to cut prices to consumers...