Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women's North American Clay Target championship: won by Mrs. J. A. Murphy of Freehold, N. J., with...
...would surely ratify, the Administration announced through the Navy Department that the battleships Utah, Florida and Wyoming would drop out of the fleet line Oct. 1. The Florida will be scrapped. The Wyoming, dismantled, will serve as a training craft. The Utah will be towed to sea, sunk in target practice...
Florence Farley was a bright but not too stalwart little girl, only daughter of a mill superintendent in a small New England town. To give her something to do and keep her outdoors, her father painted, a target on the garage door, showed Florence how to practice hitting a tennis ball at it. She soon became so expert that when she got a chance to play on a real court against a live opponent she aquitted herself like an embryo champion. When her club sent her to the national junior championships (all expenses paid) she earned her keep by bringing...
...Target shooting in Switzerland is still as much of a national sport as it was in the U. S. in 1830. Hawk-eyed Swiss hold nearly all the free-rifle records in the world. Their team world's record, made in Stockholm last year, is 5,442 out of a possible 6,000. On an International target, two inches at 300 metres is all that separates a 10-point bullseye from...
...television pioneer, predicts only a few of the feasible inventions when he suggests "wars of the future when the staff officer can see the enemy through the television eye of his scouting planes, or can send a bombing plane without a man on board which can see the target and be steered by radio to its objective." The science of war will undoubtedly be remade, while ordinary conditions of living, especially in connection with entertainment, should experience great changes...