Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Events national and international impinged significantly during the past fortnight upon Premier Raymond Poincare. He who stepped from the Olympian security of a onetime (1913-1920) Presidency of France to assume a thankless Premiership and save the franc (TIME, Aug. 2), became once again a nucleus for strife, a target for criticism...
...court had deferred judgment when Farmer Glatt sued to restrain his pesky neighbors. Before thinking up his fence, Farmer Glatt and family and neighbors practiced marksmanship at an elevated target in the Glatt barnyard but desisted because of the high price of ammunition...
...inveterate long distance horseback rider, and a swimmer of remarkable strength. During a recent swimming exhibition off the famed Isshiki Beach, Prince Hirohito donned a bathing suit, seized a rifle, and entering the water, proved his skill at the peculiar Japanese pastime of shooting at a target while treading water. Later he applauded enthusiastically a group of expert swimmers who donned ancient Samurai suits of metal armor and thus clad swam an exciting race. As everyone knows, the Prince of Wales and Prince Regent Hirohito played a game of golf on the Komazawa links (1923) in which Edward...
...more about one "Harry-the-Greek" Bouklias and one Harry Turner, convicted perjurers and underworld go-betweens, whose release from the penitentiary Mellett had fought after having rid Canton of their presence. Sleuths nosed along a well-beaten narcotics trade-route between Canton and Pittsburgh that had been prime target of Mellett's vice-crusade...
They call it "target" golf and they played it one day last week over the rolling course at Moor Park, England. Five score of the world's ablest professional linksmen were on hand to give it a trial, coveting ?1,000 of prize money...