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...invented an electrical apparatus which enabled him to take pictures of a bullet speeding through the air at 2,700 feet a second and its following gases. This is done by means of an electric spark which has a duration of roughly a millionth of a second...
...long walks, two miles over the groaning pan ice to the nearest open water. Animal life abounded on the frozen bay-flocks of little auks, eider duck, sportive seals and an occasional roving polar bear. One 800-lb. female bear swung up alongside the Bowdoin, was received with a bullet by MacMillan. Doctors of the party cut out the poisonous liver and brain, the empty stomach, for study...
...missiles struck the board. Wong Low screamed; the youths jeered. Chattering Chinese imprecations, Low drew a revolver from his blouse, began to shoot. The boys scattered, but one James Courte, aged 22, dodged into a doorway, was "cornered" by the enraged Chinese, received one of Low's bullets in the head, another in the heart. A policeman, seeing Courte pitch forward upon his face, broke the back of the fleeing laundryman with a well-aimed bullet...
Down Aguascalientes' Main Street walked Harold G. Bretherton, U. S. Vice Consul. From behind rang out a shot which wounded the Vice Consul slightly in the back. The cause of the outrage was unknown, but it was believed that the bullet was intended for somebody else...
...Incident. A miser, who distrusts his socialist nephew, screams for joy out of the window when imperial troops rout the revolutionaries. A stray bullet catches him in the chin...