Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would probably kill an unprotected man. Hence in practice such a mask is a very nearly complete protection. It is the same with shelters. ... A single four-ton bomb . . . aimed exactly right . . . would no doubt destroy a shelter which was safe against bombs weighing one ton. Nevertheless, I shall call a shelter bombproof if it will stand up to a one-ton bomb. ... A one-ton [gas] bomb will poison 120 million cubic feet of air, for example a layer [of air] twelve feet high and covering nearly half a square mile...
...partnership of these two strong men is a big story of U. S. journalism. Scott was a big, brusque, walrus-faced fighter, who read Horace for diversion and stepped up to bars in a long frock coat and high silk hat to call for a shot of straight whiskey. Pittock was barely five feet tall, with a goat-beard, cool, abstemious and calculating. In his later years he loved to ride a horse at the head of parades because it flattered his disproportionately large head and shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went...
...courses section men themselves call the roll, while in French F and Mathematics A students are employed as monitors in sections containing over 30 men. Instructors in any course, however, have the right to take attendance if "it would be for the best interest of the class...
Instructors May Call Roll...
Coach Hal Ulen will call his swimmers to the colors today in the wrestling room of the Indoor Athletic Building at 4:15 o'clock. All candidates for the Varsity and Freshman tank teams are expected to be present...