Word: starting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...suppose that we must read it--after the poem at the start. The second entry is something that someone wrote, but was either too tired or too wise to sign, called "On the Job." It concerns "Camp Devens" and a game of "bridge whist" and "barracks"--with all such intimate local color...
...through in six weeks with luck. Twenty-five flying hours are required; 50 landings; a 90-mile triangle, cross country, with two stops; several petits voyages' to neighboring hangars; an altitude test over 2000 meters for over an hour; it is the regular French 'brevet' course. We start in double control machines and after five or six flying hours are sent to solo work...
...been coming regularly the last three or four nights, and so everyone took it for granted that they would come this evening at about 9.15, because the Boche do everything by time table, which once established is seldom changed. The same is true at the front. If they start sending a shell in at a certain place at, say a two-minute interval, you can be perfectly sure that they will come regularly as clockwork. And once the interval is broken the firing does not start again. In the Ambulance we used to work on this basis and with almost...
Baseball for the University will start on February 11, immediately after the mid-year examination period, when the players will be called out for work under Hugh Duffy, coach of the University team last season. Plans for next spring's activities in baseball, although not complete, assure the formation of a Freshman nine with a schedule of customary length, and of an informal University team, if interest in the game warrants it. During February only the battery candidates will report, the infielders and outfielders not starting work until early in March...
...people every sort of succor or assistance that is open to us. The ties between Nova Scotia and its capital and our State and city are close and warm. The consequences of the disaster, in physical suffering and very likely in hunger, must be instant and terrible. Let us start our help at once. The railway and the sea should bear it even before set of sun. Boston Transcript...