Word: shots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before the B. A. A. hockey team was able to subdue the University sextet 6 to 5 at the Arena last night. The extra session was six minutes old when Geran, on a face-off near the Crimson cage, took the puck, skated behind the net and slipped a shot in the corner which Cumings was unable to stop...
...President's only Christmas clemency was a commutation of the sentence of one man, John Rohrer, sentenced for life for having shot a Chinese policeman while on duty as a legation guard at Shanghai. The sentence was reduced to 20 years. Rohrer had served nine, and was immediately eligible for parole...
Three whole days were given over to executions. The condemned were marched on to a railway bridge, made to stand on the edge of the ties, were blindfolded. They were then shot by soldiers standing on the other end of the ties and toppled backwards 30 feet into the frozen river below. Those who were not killed by the bullets broke their necks on the ice. In all, 1,065 were thus executed...
...second half went differently. There were new figures in the Trojan backfield -Le Febvre, squat and square; Newman, a Red Indian called "Chief." Now one, now the other of these two, shot into the scrimmage or off around an end. They scored a touchdown, two touchdowns; and a "1 minute later "Chief" Newman, doubling back deceptively, launched a long, high pass to Phythian, substitute Trojan end, who stumbled over for a third score as he caught the ball...
Came a great crashing in the wings of a stage just in front of the head table. President Brigham shot the cue: "Mr. Brown, what is that awful noise...