Word: traps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shapley is also known as an entomologist, and has done some interesting work in investigating the ants of the California mountains. He discovered, for instance, that the speed at which these creatures move depends on the temperature, and that for some species the time of running through a "speed-trap", as shown by the stop-watch, gives the temperature of the surrounding air within one degree. He found that the ants went twelve times as fast at 100 degrees as at 50 degrees...
...Saturday, May 22, the main event of the trap-shooting season will take place at New Haven, when teams from Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Dartmouth will take part in a meet held under the auspices of the Intercollegiate Trap-shooting Association. In this meet the University will be represented by a team of five men and several substitutes...
...interested in trap-shooting, no matter whether they intend to try for the team or not, including experienced men, beginners and Freshmen, should attend the meetings at the Club House on Soldiers Field today and hear the plans for the season, which will be explained at that time...
...schedule of the Gun Club will include shoots with Yale on May 1st and May 8th, and the Intercollegiate Shoot at New Haven on Saturday, May 22nd. The spring season of the club will open next week when shooting practice will begin. All men who are interested in trap shooting will have an opportunity to compete for the club team...
...Clark, Jr., LL.B. '05, has been elected captain of the trap-shooting team which will represent the United States in the Olympic Games at Antwerp. Mr. Clark will have full power to select the team which will probably be composed of eight men. He is a member of the Boston Athletic Association...