Word: firing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first proved their value in the Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...
...requests for the course come mostly from former officers and privates of Battery A and form the Plattsburg men who took the artillery course there. The purpose of the school is to train men for officers of artillery and to give them practice in fire control and the handling of battery. The instruction in the armory will be with a terrain board and blackboard, and when spring comes there will be supplementary outside work. Anyone who has found that joining Battery A would take too much of his time and who has had some military experience may become a member...
Among the leading attractions at the New York theatres next Saturday night are the following: "The Girl who Smiles," at the Longacre; "Under Fire," at the Hudson; "Chin Chin," at the Globe; "The Birth of a Nation," at the Liberty; "Hip, Hip, Hooray," etc., at the Hippodrome; "Common Clay," at the Republic; "Hit-the-Trail-Holiday," at the Astor; Geraldine Farrar in "Carmen," at the Strand; "Young America," at the Gaiety; "Miss Information," at George M. Cohan's; "Around the Map," at the New Amsterdam; William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes," at the Empire; "Rolling Stones," at the Harris; Lillian Russell...
...those of us who perforce remain in Cambridge to do all in our power to keep alive the fading embers of the sacred fire of our University, that she may welcome back in the days of peace those who left her so readily at the call of duty, and keep ever fresh in the days to come the names of her noble sons whose lives have been self-dedicated to the service of their native land...
...Last chance for voters to register, in Brattle Square Fire Station...