Word: shrapnel
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...anti-aircraft fire against a sausage-shaped target, 10 ft. in diameter, 45 ft. long, towed by the Shenandoah at 33 mi. an hour, more than 4,000 ft. up, and fired at by 3-in. guns from the battleship Texas. Six hundred and thirty-five rounds of shrapnel were fired. The target showed 763 holes, 11 made by unexploded shells...
...There is no comparison," he said when questioned as as to the relative difficulties of piloting his car through the front line trenches and Boston thoroughfares." I would much rather take a chance on running through a shower of shrapnel and dodging shell holes than try and make a hurry trip down Washington Street on Saturday afternoon...
...practiced. Monarchist guns barked their medley of jubilation. The Lokal Anziger printed a letter which clearly revealed the painful fact that ex-Chancellor Bauer had accepted money from the Barmats. The Socialist Party forced Bauer to resign from the Reichstag?but nothing it could do could temper the cracking shrapnel that spat its hate on every side. Dr. Anton Hofle, ex-Minister of Ports, resigned temporarily from the Reichstag and his trial was rumored; for, although he was not accused of profiting financially, it remained a fact that the Barmat transactions were approved by him. Other revelations implicating Socialists were...
...Book. These memories are simply and effectively told. They consist largely of anecdote, to which the author's unusually stirring career lends itself. On almost every page we find him defending frail beauty with his fists, dodging shrapnel, seizing would-be suicides on the Thames embankment, solving-or attempting to solve-criminal mysteries. Of the intimacies of his life -his mental career-he says relatively little, save for occasional discussion of the psychic phenomena which are his chief interest...
...considered the worst sector on the Western front, I later learned was a Paradise compared to Gallipoli. In the latter place we were handicapped by the adobe soil, in which only shallow ditches could be dug for shelter. These and our pith helmets were hardly protection against snipers and shrapnel...