Word: skeet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four men armed with 12-gauge single barreled shotguns marched up to varsity hammer thrower Howie Reed's Winthrop D-32 room and knocked on the door. Entry residents who saw the gunmen did nothing to stop them. They were used to the Wednesday afternoon appearance of the Harvard skeet team...
From Winthrop House the four visitors and Reed proceeded to the Mayflower Skeet Club in Holliston (25 miles west of Cambridge) for their weekly practice stint of knocking the clay out of clay pigeons. At the Club, they were joined by Coach Dick Shaughnessey, "Mr. Skeet", as he is known in American skeet circles...
After hissing impatiently behind the scenes for 17 months, the Air Force's hottest jet bomber-the experimental Boeing XB-47 Stratojet-whipped into public view last week like a kerosene-burning skeet target. It left Moses Lake, Wash., with a whoosh of its six jet engines, skyrocketed 2,289 miles to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (where it rolled down the runway with a fuchsia-colored parachute blossoming from its tail, to slow it down) in three hours and 46 minutes...
...nunrods have served notice on the Crimson gun club that they would enjoy a skeet shoot on the morning of November 22 in the marsh which generally surrounds the south end of the New Haven railroad station after a heavy thaw...
...quarter of the prize went to skeet-shooting Dr. John Howard Northrop of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Princeton, N.J. He worked on enzymes too, probing into the complexities of their molecules, proved them to be a kind of protein. Now he is trying to find out their ultimate intimate structure...