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...Antwerp these seven super-gunmen must first fire 120 shots apiece in a three-day Small Bore (.22 calibre) Competition, then another 120 shots apiece in the main event (three days more). In their baggage last week were ten of the finest rifles ever produced by the Springfield Armory, specially stocked to individual measures, and 5,000 rounds of special ammunition designed by ballistic experts of the Ordnance branch of the Army. Said Team Captain Boles...
...Washington many a heavy thinker for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Half a peanut an hour, the thinkers were told, would furnish sufficient calories to sustain their heaviest mental work; thus a small bag of peanuts each would have seen their brains through the three-day sessions of the Academy...
Members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors foregathered in Washington last week for their perennial three-day meeting, heard a score of speeches about censorship, pressagentry. their duty in molding public opinion. On the evening of their last day they sat down to dinner with President Hoover, whose remarks, as is customary when a chief executive speaks before the A. S. N. E., were regarded as confidential...
...Speaker Longworth was last week granted a three-day leave by the House to rest at Aiken, S. C. In his absence Nebraska's Senator Norris proposed the Senate investigate his " discourtesy" by keeping for ten months on his desk without action a Senate proposal to eliminate " lame duck" sessions of Congress...
...three-day election period 683 votes were cast, 57 more than last year. The preferential system of balloting was used, voters indicating as many choices as there were candidates for the different offices...