Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan winds up this week her Grand Naval Maneuvers and sea exercises of all sorts which have been going on since July 20. In the first phase, "fleet training.'' nobody was killed. In the second phase, "target practice," seven sailors met Death in a turret fire aboard the cruiser Ashigara. Then the fleet disappeared for five weeks of Grand Maneuvers in North Pacific waters...
...Editor Powell's consignment to the Scripps-Howard doghouse seemed to be that his latest fight, with some local politicians, had become so personal that it canceled his value to his paper. He had lately made some extraordinary allegations of corruption among the Marion County Democracy. Chief target was a criminal court judge named Frank P. Baker, who was once indicted (but never tried) for election fraud...
...should like to very much." said the Hatter. "But, you know, the arrow will never get to the target...
...English army officer who invented it. It consists of one-half inch in diameter lead balls hardened with antimony which are fired from a forged steel case by a charge of black powder exploded by a time fuse when the shrapnel-filled-case is about ten yards above the target on its way down to earth...
...North American Clay Target Champion was Joe Hiestand, 28-year-old farmer of Hillsboro, Ohio, who, when he broke 199 out of the first 200 birds, found himself tied with nine other shooters. Thereupon he broke 100 straight for the title...