Word: fired
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publication of the Register this year has been unavoidably delayed by the destruction of all the type in a recent fire in the Van Dyke Printing Comany, New Haven publishers, who were at that time handling the publication of the Register. The subsequent handling of this year's edition has been done by a Boston firm...
Delay has this year been partly excusable, a fire in the printing plant postponing the issue for six weeks. But even six weeks earlier would have been too late, when prompt cooperation from sources of Register data would have made it possible to publish in late November...
...forged and case hardened troops. If Scotch in husbandry, he was Scotch in fortitude, in personal valor. Rang in his ears an ancestral catch: "What e're betide, what e're betide, Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside!" Did he hum those words when, amid a murderous fire at Ypres, he went to hearten his troops within the battle area itself? Characteristically the last formal act of his life was to address a Boy Scout rally, last week on his estate. "Stand up for England when people speak disrespect- fully of her!" he said. On the evening...
...tall, bronzed woman, smoking a Marlboro; at her left, a man stands with a cigaret of similar brand drooping between his fingers; in the day time, smoke, from an invisible source, curls from the mouths of both figures; by night, the ends of their cigarets glow with an electric fire...
...periphery 48 lenses. As the lenses revolve a photographic film moves back of the disc. Normal exposures are 3,200 a second, possible exposures 10,000 a second. (The ordinary cinema camera takes 16 views a second.) Utility: Resolving for leisurely observation the details of swift moving machinery, gun fire, water flow...