Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other than Latter Day Saints and Roman Catholic, in Utah and the five contiguous states are-Methodist: Gooding (Gooding, Idaho), University of Denver and Iliff School of Theology (Denver) ; Presbyterian: Idaho (Caldwell, Idaho), Westminster (Salt Lake City) ; Nazarene: Northwestern Nazarene (Nampa, Idaho) ; Congregational: Colorado (Colorado Springs, Colo.); Pillar of Fire: 'Westminster (Denver...
...moving along at better than 50 knots. Should the sausage descend close enough, the whole Stadium would be darkened by its shadow, for two football fields laid end to end would not equal its 720 feet of length. Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over it and destroy it with bombs, the dirigible would send out five full-sized planes, carried underneath the bag and launched from built-in runways. Having left the Stadium, the ship could then travel...
...those ships are only big eggshells!" scoffed British Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Field to correspondents. He continued: "They would be a big target, with guns inconveniently placed and with no fire controls, and which any cruiser would quickly put out of business...
...Nonohay, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, natives and their families danced rustically last week; banteringly told one Lieut. Matias Cuardos, coxcomb, that he might not join their merrymaking. Enraged, Matias Cuardos ordered a squad of his soldiers to fire at the dancers. Eleven were killed, 27 wounded...
Pleasure Trip. With his valet and two Dutch pilots,. Van Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, left Amsterdam, Holland, last week in a Fokker monoplane to fly to the Dutch East Indies. Leisurely, he hopped to Budapest-thence to Constantinople, Aleppo, Bagdad. . . . Crash & Fire, Three miles from Le Bourget (Paris air port) a heavily loaded biplane floundered down upon a wheat field, smashed its landing gear. There was an ear-splitting explosion, followed by the crackle of flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives...