Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials of the Harvard Rifle Club announced yesterday that they hoped shortly to conclude negotiations with the Walnut Hill Rifle Club which would enable the use of that organization's range...
Members of the Rifle Club's executive committee went out to Walnut Hill yesterday to inspect the place and found everything highly satisfactory. Besides various heavy calibre ranges at distances of 500, 400, 300, and 200 yards, there are also a number of targets at different distances for small bore and pistol shooting. A clay pigeon trap is also located on the grounds and arrangements will be made for its use if enough men possessing shotguns wish to shoot over it. Meals may be obtained if the caretaker's wife is notified in advance...
...North. There were frogs of many sizes in this pond and I liked to look at them. One day I began to feed a small frog and he was soon so gentle I could pat him on the back. He was not much larger than a walnut. Then I decided to get a size larger frog and after I gentled him I got a size still larger. I kept on at this until I had 20 and each accurately a size larger. The 20th frog...
...general use of small arms will occur until it has been decided whether or not the Club will join the Walnut Hill organization, which has more extensive facilities for shooting all types of arms than the present range. Turkey shoots will probably be held in the neighborhood of Thanksgiving for members of the Club...
...Macon. But they acquired their most unusual 1931 rookie from the Oakland club, Pacific Coast League. He is Catcher Ernest Lombardi, 6 ft. 3 in. high and 220 Ib. heavy with a huge nose and hands big enough to enwrap a baseball as though it were a walnut. The New York Yankees found a monster larger than Lombardi-Jim Weaver, a 6 ft. 7 in. pitcher with a woodchuck jaw. Easily the highest pitcher in the big leagues, Weaver has a good fast ball, fair control...