Word: calling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...also announced yesterday that no further enlistments in the balloon division of the Army Signal Corps will be accepted. The War Department's quota of balloon pilots and observers has been filled and no more are needed at present. Another call may be issued later by department aeronautical officers...
...formation of a wrestling team to represent the University informally will be largely determined by the response to the call for practice. Approximately 50 men have already signified their intention of competing for the team, and if this interest is maintained it is probable that meets will be arranged with service teams and other organizations around Boston...
...same connection. Ought not this policy to be extended to students in all branches of applied science and indeed to advanced students of pure science as well? There are no fixed limits between applied science and engineering if the latter term is broadly construed. The chemical expert may not call himself an engineer but in these days of chlorine gas, thermite bombs and other such instruments of carnage he is quite as indispensable on the battlefront as the builder of roads and bridges. All applied science, moreover, depends on pure science. It is in this latter field that the pioneering...
...registrant who has been classified in Class 1 may enlist in the navy if his liability order number is such that he is not within the current quota of his local board under a present call...
...December 15, 1917, upon presentation to a recruiting officer of a certificate showing that his order number is so low (whether he is in Class 1 or in a deferred Class),k that he is not within the current quota of his local board under a present and existing call. ORSON D. MUNN, lieutenant (JG), U.S. N. R. F., District Enrolling Officer...