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Word: skeeter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carl Bernard. Its best speed over the 12-mile windward-leeward course was 31 min. 51 sec. Class B (250 ft.) was won by Su-Jac III, Pilot H. V. Fitzcharles of Lake Geneva, Wis. Class C (175 ft.): Holy Smoke III, Pilot Don Campbell of Delavan, Wis. Skeeter winner: Gale, Pilot Harry Nye of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ice Yachting | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...diameter line, seven others are at equidistant points around the semicircle. Shooters fire from each stand at two targets thrown alternately from the two traps, then from stands 1, 2, 6 and 7 at two thrown simultaneously. The 25th target may be shot at from any stand. The skeeter's ideal: to break all 25 targets, win membership in the "Twenty-Fivers' Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeet | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Skeet tries to duplicate the typical hunting situation of pointing dog, tense gunner, unpredictable game birds. Unlike trap-shooters, skeeters may not raise gun to shoulder until the target appears. That may be any time within three seconds after the shooter cries "Pull." Skeeter Henry Bourne Joy, onetime president of Packard Motor Car Co., has invented an electric variable timer which throws targets with unbiased irregularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Skeet | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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