Word: skeet
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...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...
...influences dominated his one hobby-shooting and hunting. He became one of the crack shots of the service, captained rifle teams, became a skeet champion. On his leaves he packed off to hunt big game-caribou and moose in Canada, elephants and tigers in Indo-China...
...marriage, at 40, was Army: he met tall, blue-eyed Mrs. Mildred Lee Buckner, widow of an Army flight surgeon, at a Langley Field dinner dance. She loves Army life. Hodges taught her to shoot and hunt (she is among the country's top women skeet shots). Mrs. Hodges lives in Atlanta, wishes the General had time to write more often, tell a little more about himself when he does...
...aide: "There's a couple of pheasant-in that field over there." His aide, Captain Lewis D. Bridge, peering at the brownish specks 300 yards away, could recall with good reason that his boss was a famous hunter, one of the Army's finest riflemen and skeet shooters...