Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale stars Jim Fuchs and George Apple are cinches to win their events-the shot and the pole vault. The thigh jump shot prove close. One Britisher is known to have jumped 5 feet, 11 inches, and Yale boasts a pair of freshmen twins who are both able to jump close to 6 feet...
...last Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale meet was held in England in 1939, when the British whipped the combined American team 9 to 3. Howie Mendel was the only Crimson winner, setting a meet record of 47 feet, 11 inches in the 16 pound shot...
...once sent a dead mouse through one of the pneumatic tubes connecting Chicago's four daily newspapers with the City News Bureau. Two minutes later, "City Press," which prides itself on its speedy service, shot back a box of rat poison. For live news, it moves even faster; on big stories it sometimes pops 2,000' words a minute through the 40-m.p.h. tubes...
...rowdy days, some of the reporters carried pistols, and now & then a celebrating staffer took a shot at. the city-room clock; General Manager and Managing Editor Isaac Gershman put down the practice when a wild bullet holed his vest as he sat at his desk. Nowadays, a City Press reporter's life is less temerarious; though a juicy murder or a big fire still comes along to relieve the routine, it is mostly a hard-working job of covering the unexciting but important little stories that fill out the chronicle of the day. But Editor Gershman...
Hunter & Hunted. Daughter Grace is a cowed, bloodless spinster who lavishes her love on brother Arthur, a Christlike embodiment of human goodness, an unambitious whittler of 40 who won't shoot a gun. Riding roughshod over the entire family is another son, Curt, a hard-bodied, dead-shot, ambitious, bully who loves hunting and the kill. On the morning the story opens, he is consumed by two desires: to track down the destructive mountain lion at large among the Bridges cattle; to seduce Gwen, the fiancee of brother Harold...