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Word: shots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game had progressed only nine minutes when McTeer, McGill wingman, in an unassisted dash down the ice put a fast shot past O. P. Jackson '29, Crimson goalie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SEXTET FACES TORONTO AGAIN TONIGHT | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

...hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Rhodes Scholar Writes Contemporary Oxford Articles | 1/3/1929 | See Source »

Electrons shot outside of coolidge tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: American Association | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Francis Bacon. "He was no striped frieze; he was shot silk. The detachment of speculation, the intensity of personal pride, the uneasiness of nervous sensibility, the urgency of ambition, the opulence of superb taste-these qualities, blending, twisting, flashing together, gave to his secret spirit the subtle and glittering superficies of a serpent. . . . The music sounds, and the great snake rises, and spreads its hood, and leans and hearkens, swaying in ecstasy; and even so the Lord Chancellor, in the midst of some great sentence, some high intellectual confection, seems to hold his breath in a rich beatitude, fascinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Hen, Great Snake | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Best shot: top of a spruce wagging like a sinister head against a window in a storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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