Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vessel's guns reach twelve kilometers farther than those of our old first-line ships and fire thrice as fast per minute. The risk of its sinking has been materially reduced through a new kind of armor and a new division of bulkheads below the waterline. Its structural advantages are manifold Chief among them are, first, a great saving of weight through the use of light metals in all possible parts; second, weight saving through use of electrical method of welding its plates, doing away with all rivets. Through this alone we saved 550 tons...
...their seeing eye that discloses, as Carlyle said, 'the inner harmony of things; what Nature meant.' It is they who bring the power and the fruits of knowledge to the multitude who are content to go through life without thinking and without questioning, who accept fire and the hatching of an egg, the attraction of a feather by a bit of amber, and the stars in their courses as a fish accepts the ocean...
Wong is a Chinese character but as crooked as the letter S. He tosses a Caucasian girl behind a secret panel and in the last act gives a party at which there is a fire-eating magician. Also, in the last act, there is the San Francisco earthquake and fire. The plot deals with dope-peddling; Slippery Jim (Robert Bentley) is the chief dope-peddler; he leaves the racket and marries a pure, sweet girl. Wong is killed in the earthquake...
...until 1902 that the Opel works were ready to turn out their first all-German automobile. It had two cylinders, a cardan-shift drive. Three years later, Opel engineers developed machines of 45 to 50 horsepower. Automobile production became the chief business at Russelheim. And when fire destroyed the sewing-machine plant in 1911, it was not rebuilt. The new Opel's concentrated on bicycles, motor cars...
...answer to a bogus printed notice. Coming at 9.15 in the morning this practical joke must have broken up many a hospitable breakfast party, but the Oxonians even in disillusion maintain the leisurely tradition and cheered and rollicked about for over an hour before dispersing. The attendance of the fire department and the efforts of the proctor and his "bulldogs", without which no British college seems complete, finally succeeded in persuading the crowd that they were not really needed at the office...