Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This situation is, of course, unjust to Superintendent Gill. He and not Commissioner Dillon, has been made the target for an attack on the entire Massachusetts prison system. Mr. Hurley has done yeoman work in making the knot more difficult by violating the governor's injunction against publicity, and by spreading through the newspapers a hopeless mass of sensational and unclassified criticism. The first inference to be drawn from Norfolk is that it would be desirable to place prison officials under civil service, in which a consistent disciplinary mechanism has been evolved. If Mr. Gill had been under civil service...
...Howard Carter, expedition leader and most conspicuous target for any curse, is quite alive at 61. Of 40 persons who saw either the inner tomb or the sarcophagus opened, only six are dead. They and their ages at death...
...Parkes notes that battleships of the Mutsii class have now been equipped with foremasts so thick that they accommodate an electric elevator running clear up to the masthead. "This mast is claimed to be almost indestructible by shell fire," notes Dr. Parkes, slyly adding, "but its weight and the target offered must be enormous...
...situation will be so disagreeable, and its implications so unintelligent, that the student body will not tolerate it long. Their target, which has been the University, is now the Massachusetts Legislature, and they must address that target with force and diligence. A concession might be made in the form of the stronger malt beverages, of porter and ale, but the limit itself must be reduced to eightees years. Not only the convenience of the marginal group is involved, but also that necessity for same and enforceable law upon which so much of the repeal propaganda itself was based...
...married Sculptress Elsa Kirpal, written a best-seller (The Outlaw Years), and begun to build with his own hands his own house near Brewster. N. Y. Tall, redhaired, slow moving, he likes to read dictionaries and trade journals, spends whole afternoons throwing an ice-pick at a target on a barn door...