Word: straightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Increased lethal effect is obtained by softening the nose of the bullet to make it spread at impact. Steel jacketed bullets shoot straightest and farthest but bore clean holes instead of smashing a wide wound. Various powder loads have various killing power, but following is a rough table of the calibres and types of bullets generally recommended for various types of killing by rifle...
...football critic of the Yale Daily News, in discussing the Harvard playing against Princeton last Saturday, said the Fisher eleven displayed "a brand of football that could have been little less than a disappointment to the Crimson supporters" and "showed nothing new or deceptive but stuck to the straightest type of old-fashioned Yale plunging, reminiscent of Yale plays a few years...