Word: fired
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...concrete instance of the blood-thirstiness objected to is supplied by the following sentence quoted from the longest article, entitled "The Flagellants." "Every day thereafter, the victim's bloody back burned up in red hell-fire before the tormentor's wild eyes: divine threats of damnation echoed through the silence; amid the awful glare two gaunt figures writhed,- the one upon the floor, his eyes starting out in agony, the other in the air, his eyes swelling with glutted revenge...
...proposed to organize a party to visit the more important of the engineering and manufacturing establishments at Hartford, Conn. from April 19 to 21 inclusive. The works to be inspected include those of the Pratt and Whitney Machine Tool Co., the Pope Manufacturing Co. (Columbia bicycles), the Colt Fire Arms Co., and the Hartford Machine Screw...
There will be fifty suites. Those on one stair-case will be separated from those on another by a thick brick wall to serve as a fire protection and to deaden noise. Each suite will contain a study, bathroom, and, as a rule, two bed-rooms, but there will be a few single rooms. Special attention has been given to ventilation and lighting. Every suite will have a street and court frontage, and in every study there will be a large window eight feet wide with a stationary window-seat...
...electrical devices of the modern theatre are complete. There are one hundred electric lights in the foot and border lines of the stage, and as many more on the chandeliers of the auditorium, all of which are operated from the big switchboard on the stage. The curtain and automatic fire sprinklers which protect the scenery will be put in this week. The total cost of the theatre and furnishings is about...
...leniency of the Administrative Board have been already severely punished. The principal motive of the Administrative Board can hardly be to punish them severely for what they have done; but rather by promptness and severity to put an end for the future to disturbances such as the shooting of fire-arms on January 26. But the petition now being circulated, if generally signed, will promise for a large proportion of the undergraduates, that fire-arms and explosives will not be used in the future. There is no need then for punishment of more than ordinary severity...