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Word: firing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fashioned Christmas entertainment before the open fire in the Parlor will be provided, and apples, candy, doughnuts and eider will be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "OPEN HOUSE" TO BE HELD CHRISTMAS AT BROOKS HOUSE | 12/20/1919 | See Source »

...hockey team. Yesterday seven men appeared. Is the University to understand that this is a true index of the Freshman spirit? Is it correct to assume that the first cold day will see eighty per cent of the Freshman hockey squad huddled around the Smith, Standish and Gore Hall fire-places...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLD FEET. | 12/19/1919 | See Source »

...certainly too bad that hockey cannot be played in front of an open fire, but the nature of the sport seems to preclude the idea. Doubtless the football team would prefer to practice in morrischairs; the swimming team would like to hold their races in bathtubs. Doubtless, but --. Harvard men do not always spend their time avoiding disagreeable work. Our much-envied string of victories over Yale and Princeton proves that there are some men in College who are not afraid of cold weather or hard, unpleasant, grinding practice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLD FEET. | 12/19/1919 | See Source »

...more conspicuous than they were at the front. But the army knows well enough that the First was our model division. Together with the Second, it did more hard fighting than any other; it produced more good commanding and staff officers, notably General Summerall; it kept going, whether under fire or on the march, under conditions in which most units would have quit; and even in the matter of tactics, in the combination of artillery and infantry on the offensive, it was right in front of anything in either the American or French army. Was it "average" then...

Author: By R. M. Johnston., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 12/16/1919 | See Source »

...wrong; the nation was to settle down, and with a clean slate start anew. The war had taught us lessons in patriotism, co-operation and economy. One of its dearly-bought advantages was to be a national house-cleaning. The old order was dead, and we were going through fire that a newer and cleaner order might arise from its ashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR DALLYING CONGRESS. | 12/11/1919 | See Source »

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