Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...banking and commerce. It is estimated that 50,000 of them are on the Government pay rolls, drawing about $50,000,000 each year. . . . Nevertheless, they are too often subjected to thoughtless and inconsiderate treatment, unworthy alike of the white or colored races. They have? especially been made the target of the foul crime of lynching. . . . The Congress should enact any legislation it can under the Constitution to provide for its elimination...
...poet from Dartmouth, played against each other for the first time last week. Meeting in a Manhattan hotel, they fell to discussing the forward pass, gesticulated, went to the Polo Grounds to suit action to words. In friendly contest, Friedman, running, threw the ball more accurately at a given target. Dooley, long of arm and flat of hand, seized the ball and threw it from midfield over the cross bar of the goal posts. Friedman tried, fell short...
...movies whose average caliber is surprisingly high, one may feel well fortified against the entrenchments of the imminent winter, when hegiras to Boston seem long and arduous. The infant industry has a way of filling in empty hours which is pleasant and occasionally beneficial. It serves well as a target for the highbrow's scorn but it also serves equally well as a remedy for his ennui...
Most spectacular of the smashing, thundering, rumbling, banging, whizzing, screeching demonstrations was the night sniping by a battery of automatically-aimed 3-inch "archies" at 27-foot sock-shaped targets towed 1,200 yards behind bombing planes more than two miles aloft. Giant searchlights picked out the "socks". Machine gun tracer bullets streaked aloft. White flowers with angry red centres blossomed abruptly and faded where shrapnel burst in the sky. A direct hit of the last target's towline ended the show. Experts pronounced the anti-aircraft marksmanship the best yet achieved...
...other hand, has a corps of over 80 high executives, its J. P. Morgan banking affiliations and 57,000 stockholders to consider in every maneuver. Yet the Corporation has proved itself the more resourceful of the two when it came to keeping abreast of the moving public target. It has carefully trained its sales organization so that it can sight its market more efficiently; Ford devotes little thought to merchandising, preferring to make such a wow of a howitzer that the market will get into the line with...