Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carpenter who went away from a humble job to a position where hours were shorter and pay higher. A fortnight later he returned. "Higher, pay?--yeah. But do you know what they wanted me to do? Bang together a bunch of boards into a ramshackle barn for a target, and one shot from a gun 14 miles way blows it away...
...General Fries believed that 1,000 airplanes and 40,000 pounds of tear gas would get rid of the civil population. Major Carl Spatz, D.S.C., flyer, told the Court that Air service equipment is "obsolete or obsolescent," and told how, in an attempt to find a suitable range for target practice for pursuit planes, when finally a suitable place was found for a rental of one dollar a year the War Department did not want to part with the dollar, although it finally did so. General Howze, President of the Court, inquired: "Who was responsible for the delay...
...motored to Rome from Parma some three days earlier. Before reaching Rome they are said to have halted near a thick pine grove in order that Zaniboni might receive last minute practice in the use of his rifle, which he fired for a long time at a target set up 100 yards distant in the woods...
...such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni will do well to reflect on the matter lest they in turn may offer a target for well-directed, if kindly, arrows...
...like the ale in his cup. Or fancy Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman, Leo Diegel, Canadian open golf champion, Edwin F. Harkins, famed fisherman, and Er. Paul W. Crouse, champion U.S. bow and arrower, indulging in a contest over a set distance, the archer to hit a 12-inch target, the fisherman to drop his bait in the a yard-wide hoop, the baseman to hit a tub as wide as a man's chest, and the golfer to sink is putt. Imagine it, said the The New York Evening World, and forthwith, over the last nine holes...