Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Instruction in all that pertains to main and secondary batteries, including the service and operation of the guns; methods of controlling fire, spotting, plotting and communication system...
This class will also include instruction in ship's organization, based on the battle bill, and general instructions in the construction of men-of-war, including methods of protection both by armor and water-tight subdivisions, drainage, ventilating and fire main systems, and the numbering of compartments...
...evening: Funeral March and Seraphic Song, Guilmant Dr. Davison "O God, have mercy" (St. Paul) Mendelssohn Mr. Hancock Air Franck Scherzo Widor Sinfonietta Bach Dr. Davison "God is my Shepherd" Dvorak Song of Praise Dvorak Mr. Hancock "Evening Harmonies" Karg-Elert Dr. Davison "Is not His Word like a fire" ("Elijah") Mendelssohn Mr. Hancock Offertoire Dubois Dr. Davison
...complete list of courses in specialized fields which open this week is as follows: accounting, "Accounting Practice" and "Industrial Accounting"; financial management, "Investments" and "Financial Management of Railroad Companies"; transportation, "Railroad Accounting and Statistics" and "Water Transportation"; insurance, "Fire Insurance Engineering"; "Life Insurance Agency Methods" and "Actuarial Practice"; lumbering, "General Lumbering" and "Lumber Problems"; law, "Law Relating to Railroad Rate Making"; industrial management, "Factory Practice"; Chamber of Commerce Work and Methods"; local public utilities, "Public Utilities Operation"; and foreign trade, "Latin American Trade Problems...
...those who set fires alight are firebugs, then those who run must be fireflies. They are the perennial searchers for amusement. It is to be hoped that they never follow a false alarm, never miss a flaming catastrophe, and never get their wings scorched by the sparks from the engine or the fire. Nero, bring out your fiddle...