Word: air
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...public will be held in Appleton Chapel this evening at 8.15 o'clock. The following program will be presented by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, organist and director of the University Chapel choir: Prelude (First Symphony), Vierne Choral Prelude, "Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen," Brahms Scherzo, Schumann Air, Fugue and Variation, Franck Allegro (Fourth Concerto), Handel Andante (Fifth Symphony), Widor Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Bach "Evening Calm," Rheinberger Finale, Franck
...season of 1917-18 will be held in Appleton Chapel tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. The following program will be presented by Professor A. T. Davison '06, University organist and choir-master: Prelude (First Symphony), Vierne Choral Prelude, "Es ist ein' Ros' en-tsprungen," Brahms Scherzo, Schumann Air, Fugue and Variation, Franck Allegro (Fourth Concerto), Handel Andante (Fifth Symphony), Widor Prelude and Fugue in A minor, Bach "Evening Calm," Rheinberger Finale, Franck
...start, I could not help comparing it with the evolution of a football game. All preparations were made for the start, the men went forward with a grim determination, and after the battle everything was in readiness to receive the men, and the spirit of victory was in the air when the word of welcome was given...
...water, which in this case means hot coffee. I think of a typical dugout on the crest of a hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were...
...seaman navigates his vessel in all sorts of weather, but skill in local weather forecasting, and a practical knowledge of the laws of storms, are invaluable in making possible a speedier, safer and more successful voyage. Similarly, the navigator of the air, though war service often involves flying under atmospheric conditions far from favorable, inevitably finds, sooner or later, that the more he knows about the air which he is navigating, the better equipped he is as a fighter, as a photographer, or on reconnaissance work. At critical times, meteorological knowledge has time and again proved its practical value...