Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five super-dreadnaughts of the U. S. Navy spat 18 and 20-inch shells at unseen targets 30,000 yards (17 miles) away. Every shell scored a precision hit. This target practice, directed by airplanes, took place last week off the coast of Guantanamo, Cuba...
...which was the most successful and which resulted in the rather unassailable installation of a common porcelain toilet article upon the topmost pinnacle of a memorial spire, I was immediately struck with the thought that this article in porcelain would be most brittle, and a righteous and easy target for the authorities as well as a tempting one for anybody else, and therefore most certainly not out of reach as your narrative would have...
They had not cheated. They had played with bow and arrow instead of club and ball. Standing on tees they had shot arrows toward greens. Walking to where the arrows had landed, they had shot again. Regulation archery targets had been set up on the greens, substitutes for ice-filled cups. A bull's-eye had meant a "dropped" putt. A shot anywhere on the target had meant that the next putt would be automatically conceded...
They had been arguing over the McNary-Haugen farm bill. Speaker Longworth and Representative Hudspeth of Texas separated them. Mighty though their swings had been, not a fist found its target. The heavyweight championship battle of the House was a maudlin, scoreless...
...night of Dec. 12, 1926, two men rang the doorbell at the home of Joseph Adams, 300-pound mayor of West City, Ill. The mayor, incautious, unsuspecting, opened the door. His callers took hasty shots at the 300-pound target, ran for their machines, left Mayor Adams dying across his threshold. Now the State of Illinois holds Charles Birger, gunman, gangster, as accessory to the murder of Joe Adams...