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Used Wooden Trigger Traps...
There are also wooden traps which work on the same principle as the bow and arrow. The trap is set and held in place by a trigger, which is released by the animal...
...Play for the national mixed doubles title was interlarded with the men's matches. By the end of the week young Helen Wills and young Vincent Richards were left to face the 1923 champions, Molla Mallory and "BigHearted Bill" Tilden. The younger pair, on a hair-trigger edge, fired away brilliantly, bagged the title...
...corn, oil booms, and Klu Klux bands the bold Westerners have bitcired their belts another notch, sworn dutifully at the broiling sun and attacked that most revered of institutions the prohibition joke. Lest they continue to merit the reputation for over-hasty action, once gained by speed on the trigger and again confirmed by gubernatorial impeachments, the Oklahoma have, however, considerately buried their protest against this kind of humor in the body of a speech in defense of prohibition, delivered before the National Editorial Association...
Usually Mr. Hoover is calm and scientifically impersonal under fire. This time, however, his reply to Mr. Untermyer was quick on the trigger and vividly critical in tone. The Secretary, in fact, accused his assailer as "either engaged in slander or loss of memory" and branded his remarks as "reckless statements." The Californian followed up this slashing introduction by pointing out that the Department of Commerce has no authority to prosecute illegal combines; that he had made frequent recommendations for action against illegitimate trade associations, that he has never supported "open price associations," that the Webb-Pomerene Act was passed...