Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sosthenes Behn, an acquaintance of absent Alfonso XIII, remained very much present in Madrid, where he has chosen to stay during the whole of Spain's present civil war. Scores of panic-stricken Madrid mothers decided that, even though Colonel Behn's building seemed to be a target for White bombs, it also seemed able to take this strafing better than any other Madrid building, and in they swarmed with their children. The Spanish moppets surprised correspondents by not blubbering or bawling, accepted biscuits and milk from Colonel Behn after their mothers had fearfully asked, "how much will...
...Patent No. 2,042,987 was issued to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. for a radio-controlled torpedo which can reverse its course if it misses and steer for its target again. Outlined in his prospectus was a method for dispatching entire fleets of torpedoes in formation, which could be speeded or slowed as they made for their targets...
...indoor Winter program of the Club is carried on in the range in the basement of Memorial Hall where a four-point 50 feet firing range is available. The Club owns three .22 caliber target rifles for the use of its members. The targets are supplied by the Club and last year ammunition was supplied by the Club throughout the season. The range in Memorial Hall is under the supervision of the Naval Science Department, and a coach will be available from them for Club members. Tentative plans provide for the range to be open daily and one evening...
...Lake City one dawn last week, hooded and clutching a crucifix after a last-minute shift from Mormonism to Roman Catholicism, Delbert Green was led out into a dirt courtyard, strapped in a chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired, and Delbert Green...
...Crenelle, swordsman Nadi heard about the fencing boom in the U. S., he pricked up his ears. In addition to promising rich dividends for teaching, it would take him closer to Hollywood. Darkly handsome, 6 ft. tall and so slim (135 Ib.) that he offers opponents a discouragingly narrow target, Swordsman Nadi, who once acted in a French film, has always wanted to go there...