Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Morse Hall, erected in 1890 and containing Cornell University's valuable chemical laboratories and scientific equipment was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. As there was no one in the building at the time the cause has not been determined. The fire started in the photographic laboratory on the third floor of the main building and spread rapidly to the Carnegie addition, erected several years ago at a cost of $65,000. Firemen were menaced by chemical explosions, a quantity of chemicals which cannot be replaced at present because of the European war being entirely consumed, although radium worth about...
...Navy and are made to be towed by a battleship at the rate of 25 miles an hour against a 15-mile wind. These balloons, attached to a warship, are of immense value, as it makes it possible to sight the enemy many miles away and direct the shell-fire of the battleship towards the right point. Every ship and battery abroad is being equipped with similar observation balloons. They take the place of the old spherical type whose continual swaying and bobbing made it impossible to take correct observations, and in addition often made the operator seasick...
Pillars of fire and other projectiles are periodically hurled at the endowed universities for their conservatism; they are ever and anon charged with eating out of the hands of "big business," and are "arraigned" for supposed intellectual subservience. The vitriolic young men, seeking publicity, who make these charges, conveniently forgot that they are often allowed to make their denunciations in college buildings, and then are invited to speak again. They forget also that American "big business" men were as strongly opposed to the retention of certain pro-German professors in the University as they possibly could be to the employment...
...soldier as observed in this present war and the organization of the British Medical Service. Dr. Prince has but recently returned from abroad, where he has spent much of his time in the trenches and the hospitals of the English field service studying the effect of shell fire on the nervous systems of the men at the front...
...Most important, it seems to me, is this: the aeroplanes are the eyes of an army or navy, making it possible to discern movements of the enemy and to direct artillery fire. One man in the air is worth 100 on the ground. I believe that 100 aeroplanes would be sufficient for reasonable coast patrol and that 1000 would provide defense against any hostile fleet of aeroplanes. Yet 10,000 aeroplanes would cost less than 10 battleships...