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Word: targets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smashing lightweight elements with deutons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen). With "slow neutrons" lately it has been found possible to produce gamma radiation from silver. For mathematical reasons that physicists find increasingly hard to translate into English, slow neutrons braked by a paraffin shield have more effect on the target than fast ones, are currently lionized in every physics journal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prizes | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

With the issuance of a call for Freshman candidates, Harvard's three shooting units, the Rifle Club, the Pistol Club, and the Naval Science rifle team, were peppering the target end of their Memorial Hall range at full blast early this week, and expect to announce their respective schedules and have their teams picked by competition shortly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE SHOOTING UNITS PRACTICE FOR MATCHES | 11/23/1935 | See Source »

...Harvard Pistol Club will start a new season of activity on Wednesday evening, October 30. At 7.30 o'clock in the evening the members of the club will meet in Hunt Hall to discuss plans for the indoor target season now commencing, and to make arrangements for instruction and practice in pistol shooting on the range in the basement of Memorial Hall...

Author: By Captain LAURENCE B. bixby, | Title: Pistol Club Inaugurates Season With Meeting in Hunt Hall Tomorrow Night | 10/29/1935 | See Source »

...holding company makes a better target for the Utility Act than Electric Bond & Share. Through five large intermediate holding companies it controls operating companies which supply electricity and natural gas to 4,800 U. S. and 900 foreign communities. It is up to its ears in the business of managing, financing, otherwise serving its subsidiaries. In 1928 almost half its income came from service fees, and, though the proportion has dwindled since Depression, the shrinkage came through no will of the parent company. There is nothing shaky about Bond & Share. It owes no money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Natural Scrapper | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

This new contraption, an affair of rope and iron rungs, will be encased in a wooden box with a plate glass front, just big enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLAPSIBLE FIRE ESCAPES TO ADORN OLD DORMITORIES | 10/9/1935 | See Source »

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