Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...window he watched a tornado which had come whooping up the Potomac from Alexandria, Va., at 92 m.p.h., to lay waste a strip of Washington. A crashing rainstorm followed the wind. When at last the elements permitted, the President set out for Union Station. The streets clanged with ambulances, fire trucks, police wagons. President Coolidge learned in due course that Washington's total damage exceeded a million; that Mrs. Jane Carter, Negress, had been killed; that scores had been badly injured; that the Presidential yacht Mayflower had been blown from her moorings and banged against the dock...
...even without that provision an optional conference with one's tutor would not burden him with even half the usual labor of the routine months. He would still enjoy a comparatively free time for research. The wary will recommend that the student, about to enter an ordeal of fire, be allowed at least a certain sanctuary where he may find, not necessarily reenforcements, but encouragement and warning. As the plan now stands students may be granted tutorial aid in some cases, but the general tendency is in the opposite direction. Should each individual receive satisfactory guidance all will be well...
...each side of the Hudson. Part of them blow fresh air into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts in the tunnel ceiling. Thus they change the tunnel air completely 42 times an hour and but 56 of the fans are needed to do so. Fire hazard is prevented by watchmen stationed every few score feet; and there are tunnel fire engines at each entrance...
...went last week to aviation school. By direction of President Coolidge, he was assigned to active duty with the Army Air corps at Selfridge Field, Mich. He will fly the latest army pursuit plane; participating as an ordinary military pilot in routine gunnery training exercises; concentrating on machine gunnery fire at stationary targets and targets towed by other planes...
...oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their applause for Naughton & Gold, funny indeed, for the triple-tonguing of Trumpeter Rolfe and his slapstick jazz players...