Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they laced into each other with a flock of hard blows; the mix-up looked like a battle of siege guns. Meyer took the offense, and was far, ahead at the first bell; he started off the second round with a rush, but tired quickly, and was an easy target for Robinson's pounding...
...educators are in accord is that the broad purpose of education is to fit the individual most efficiently to understand, appreciate, and better himself and his fellowman, Mr. Hawtrey has not only proposed a universally desired solution of a perplexing international problem, but he has also furnished a definite target for contemporary educators...
...Secretary of the Interior last winter (TIME, Oct. 22). He requoted Dr. Work's famed remark: "People are tired of hearing of these oil leases." He quoted Nominee Hoover's one comment: "I will not discuss that matter." The textile depression in New England was a fair target for the critic of Coolidge Prosperity. Nominee Smith cited the average wage of textile workers, $17.30 per week, and contrasted it with an advertisement published in Boston by the G. O. P. The advertisement advertised that the G. O. P. had put "a chicken in every pot," had "filled the workingman...
Murders. In the early hours of a Philadelphia morning three men with shotguns murdered a hunchback, a month ago. He was weazened, four-foot Hughie McLoon, 27, saloon keeper, prizefight manager, onetime mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Standing beneath a street lamp, he made an easy target. The assassins whizzed away into darkness...
...whose points gave him the championship. Dr. E. K. Roberts of Ventura, Calif., was second; A. W. Lambert, of the St. Louis Listerine clan was third. For the first time in national tournament history, six golds were made at 40 yards. A gold is the innermost circle of the target, counts nine points in scoring. The target consists of a central disc, 9.6 inches in diameter, four concentric rings each 4.8 inches wide, painted respectively from within out, gold, nine points; red, seven; blue, five; black, three; white, one point. Dr. Roberts made six golds...