Word: traps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Gray Carroll, 35-year-old hardware merchant of Brecksville, Ohio: the Grand American Handicap, trap-shooting's No. i event, with a score of 100 straight targets from the 19-yd. line; in his first championship tournament, upholding the tradition that an "unknown from nowhere'' usually wins the title, never held twice by the same person; at Vandalia, Ohio. Tied for second place were eleven gunners, who broke 99 out of 100, a score which would have been good enough to win 31 of the previous 37 annual tournaments...
...Irish girl with whom both are in love. Maureen does not suspect either, until Commandant O'Dea is surprised on a tip given by an informer, shot by Captain Wiltshire after Inspector Hannay's gun jams. When Maureen nevertheless helps Captain Wiltshire to escape a Sinn Fein trap, the Inspector realizes where her affections lie and, as a final gallant gesture, takes the blame for shooting her brother himself...
...Leftists seemed to have committed the "almost unbelievable blunder" of persisting in efforts to hold Brunete with a large force, although the flanks of their advance to this spearhead had been so driven in by the Rightists that, in the orthodox military view, it had become untenable-a death trap...
...principal is surprised when one of the girls, pretty Mary Clay (Lana Turner) comes back to the classroom to get a vanity case she has forgotten. At the town cemetery, the show-going old Governor pays sincere tribute to the dead and is sardonically congratulated by the steel-trap district attorney who is jealous of his job. All this is so much in the routine of a hot spring afternoon, that the best thing the town's star reporter (Allyn Joslyn) can think of to do when he drops inat police headquarters after writing his parade story...
...chinchilla has ever been kept alive in a U. S. zoo more than a year. The temperate climate of the U. S. is completely unsuited to the creature's constitution. In 1913 one M. F. Chapman of Los Angeles went high into the Chilean Andes, managed to trap a dozen. He brought them down gradually, kept them at 11,000 ft. for two years, 9,000 ft. for a year. It took him nearly six years to reach sea level. During the 8,000 mi. voyage to California the animals were kept packed in ice. All their hair dropped...