Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crack! The spectators twitched. The bullet leaped from a little copper-plated cannon, zipped into a target 50 ft. away. There was a sharp, short glow of pale blue light on the screen, where the watchers glimpsed the silhouette of the bullet, apparently motionless though it was traveling...
...program when followed will make us the target of the criticism of the human ostriches who hide their heads to danger...
...Honolulu a blade tossed by a Siamese sword-thrower missed its target, found instead the cheek of California's famed Criminologist August Vollmer. Flying on its way, it nicked the ear of San Francisco Chronicle's Editor Chester Harvey Rowell...
Said David Allen, who resigned the day he was accused: "In my position I am always a target for heartless aspiring men and women seeking to entrap me or frame me. . . . This is the first time in 20 years they have progressed so far as to have me formally accused...
...final spasm in a year-long nightmare. Mr. Lee, who pulled profits out of Armour last year for the first time since 1930, tried to reorganize the packing company last summer but various stockholder groups blocked him at a rowdy meeting in August. Salaries next became the target for the protective committee's publicity. Months of wrangling over a new board revealed that Frederick Henry Prince, crusty septuagenarian banker of Boston, had become Armour's biggest individual stockholder. Last January another rowdy stockholders' meeting produced eight new directors and a reconstituted finance committee of which Mr. Prince...