Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steel plates at a distance of one mile. Dead trees have been fired at the same distance and animal life has been snuffed out at distances ranging from two to seven miles. Dummy planes also have been destroyed in air tests. . . . There is no doubt at all that this stroke could be sent in any desired direction for 20 miles...
Utmost secrecy always shrouds the structural details of new munitions of war. This one, announced last week by its inventor, Dr. Edwin R. Scott, is called the "death stroke" or "canned lightning." The Navy Department, which has been in touch with Dr. Scott's researches, hinted that the ultraviolet ray was involved, but Dr. Scott stated specifically: "There is no ray or beam about...
...certain winner. All that stood in his way was a blond stripling named Lawrence Lloyd, a Greenwich youth who had a putter. On every green, that putter flashed. Down went straight 15 footers, down went curly 10 footers, down went nasty 6 footers, down went Jess Sweetser, by a stroke on the last green. Golf, chortled the supporters of Lloyd, is a humbling game. Out sallied Lloyd to play in the finals against 18-year-old Eugene Homans, Junior Metropolitan Champion. His putter jerked, his wrists smote the ball over, under and around; Homans defeated...
Died. Professor Giacomo Boni, 66, archaeologist, who became famed through his researches into the antiquities of Rome and was director of excavations at the Forum; on the Palatine Hill, at Rome, from an apoplectic stroke. King Vittorio Emanuele and Premier Benito Mussolini sent condolences to his family. Signor Cremonesi, Royal Commissioner of Rome (equivalent of mayor), sent in the name of the Eternal City a guard of honor to the mortuary, announced that the funeral expenses would be borne by the city...
...Senators -Sherman of Illinois, LaFollette of Wisconsin, and France of Maryland— undertook to hold the floor until the following noon. Their undertaking was successful- so successful, indeed, that the tensity of feeling among the majority found sardonic expression in the words of Vice President Marshall, who at the stroke of noon, halted the last of the filibusters by declaring the Senate of the 65th Congress adjourned sine deo, instead of sine...