Word: target
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army, two other guests and the corpse of the Prince's comely half-breed, common-law wife, Arvilla Kinslea. Arvilla Kinslea was propped up in a chair, wrapped in a bloodstained sheet. The living room was littered with broken crockery of which she had apparently been the target. Her face was ragged with lacerations. A deep gash in her throat had severed her jugular vein...
...faster and faster, toward the rim of the tank. After being kicked 100 times by 50,000 volts, they attain speeds of 5,000,000 electron-volts. As they approach the rim of the tank, they are guided by a deflecting plate through a window and thence against any target the researchers choose...
...field which must have had to duck to get into the Stadium at all. This cardboard monster and its antics caused the Harvard audience to smile with superiority as it gave birth to five little drums. But when the original was exhibited a few minutes later in the role target for the band's bow and arrow stunt, even the most patriotic had to admit it didn't sound very virlie for such a big fellow...
...Reidsville, N. C., the latest sport is rolling-pin throwing contests. Target is a dummy with a bull's-eye drawn on it. Unofficial champion is Mrs. Frank Christian...
...childish, nothing so angers archers as the charge that their sport is effete, and the newspapers' habit of using almost no archery pictures except those of pretty girls. Actually, archery is among the most strenuous of pastimes. At the National Archery Association's 57th annual target meeting in Lancaster, Pa. last week, major object of attention was not pretty Jean A. Tenney of Clear Spring, Md., who won the women's championship on the meet's third day, but the 106-man shooting line for the 1937 men's championship. In this grueling three...