Word: commonest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tell you the commonest events of my life. I doubt whether that will be possible, for I have chosen a 75 attacking battery, but I shall keep a moment-to-moment journals for you and for others to whom I am not afraid to reveal myself. If I get through safely we'll laugh over it--and if I pass out, it will be sent...
...interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, Mr. Williston emphasized the necessity of engineering knowledge. "This war," he said, "is so different in its use of machinery and mechanical equipment from other wars that it becomes important for every officer to have at least a superficial knowledge of the commonest military engineering matters. As an illustration of this, every West Point graduate is a technically trained man. Members of the R. O. T. C., if fortunate, are going to get ranks similar to those of West Point graduates and you can appreciate the importance of at least a slight familiarity with...
Harvard College has also had innumerable escapes from fire losses, because of the prompt extinguishment of fires started. The commonest cause of fires in the dormitories was the falling of live coals out of the grate piled too high to keep the fire during some long absence of the occupant of the room. Many fires have been started in the College buildings by students' thoughtless practice of throwing matches and the ends of cigars or cigarettes into waste-paper baskets; but these sudden flames are as a rule put out quickly, because the chances are that the fire will start...