Word: shotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe he was turning the big wheels of commerce. But when he had to go to work right after grammar school as an extra hand on the New York Central Railroad, he began to feel that his dream would never come true; a guy could never be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
...discovered Jim's little embellishments and charged him with making fraudulent statements. It wasn't that Jim hadn't done a bang-up job all the way. It was just about like Jim Glynn had always figured-no one would believe he could be a big-shot transportation executive without a college degree...
...movie opens with a long shot of the earth whirling in space, and the voice of Creator DeMille himself intoning a speech that begins: "Before the dawn of history, ever since the first man discovered his soul . . ." To meet the challenge of building from there, DeMille brings on a seven-day saturnalia in the fleshpots of Timnath; Delilah Lamarr slinking through ten changes of scanty costumes; Samson Mature strangling a lion with his bare hands, killing 1,000 Philistines with the jawbone of an ass, and pulling the temple down about the ears of the whole company...
Rockwell piled up 26 points, but he did not get started until the second half; ten of his points came on foul shots. Ed Smith was second high man with 13. Gerry Murphy's set shot was the only outside shooting effective against the close Springfield guarding...
...Varsity rfle team shot a score of 1344 in a postal match with Brown, Dartmouth, Illinois Tech, Norwich, Rutgers, and Washington University last Saturday, while the freshman squad amassed 1249 points...