Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last a calf-less one presented a fine target, and I fired. Then started the most exciting and dangerous two minutes I have ever been through. My bullet hit the cow in the neck and broke the spinal cord. She went down, instantly killed. It sounded like a ton of bricks falling...
...coroner's jury inquest at Minster, Jean Chesterton's murderer, one John Boahemia, Birmingham mailcarrier, sometime Territorial volunteer gunner in the Royal Air Force, testified that he had mistaken the rowboat for one of the target buoys. It was his first flight with a loaded gun, he said. The jury gave in a verdict of "death by misadventure...
...Joseph F. Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio: the 500-target amateur trapshooting championship of the world, with 497 breaks (including an unfinished run of 326) to 494 for Walter S. Beaver of Berwyn, Pa.; at Yorklyn, Del. ¶ Jack Hagen, Long Island golf professional (no kin): a prize in the N. Y. World-Telegram's hole-in-one competition when, first to play among more than 400 entrants, he plunked his third try (out of five allowed) into the hole (148 yd.) on the fly. The hole used was on his home Salisbury Country Club links. ¶ Red-headed Donald...
...escape the draft. Before the hearings opened the steelmasters, confronted by Madam Secretary Perkins and General Johnson, backed down on the company union provisions of their code, thus permitting the dispute to shift to the coal fields where they hoped to fight it out obliquely. Though her major target thus disappeared, Madam Secretary Perkins had many another serious fault to find with the steel code. She flayed its low pay and long hours so effectively that the steel code was sent back into conference for revisions. Fagged by her efforts and Washington's heat, Miss Perkins dropped...
...Fourteen passengers whooped with excitement, flattened their noses against the windows as the ship's nose went down. They saw a herd of about 200 elephants of assorted sizes; then another, then a third. "Can you imagine our feelings? And funny none of us thought how grand a target they made. They looked so peaceful and contented. . . ." The Martin Johnsons were waiting at Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) with a big Sikorsky, flew them to the Nairobi ranch, amazed them with a dinner that any U.S. hostess might have been proud of- cocktails and caviar, soup, fish, roast turkey...