Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheldon M. Goodman 2L was burned out of his top-floor apartment at 70 Wendell Street when a blaze destroyed the three-story wooden building in which he lives early yesterday morning...
Three firemen were injured in fighting the blaze, but none of the ten occupants of the building was hurt. One of the firemen was overcome by smoke, and the other two suffered cuts and bruises...
...victims . . . The only question is: When is the best time to meet the threat, and how? The best time to meet the threat is in the beginning. It is easier to put out a fire in the beginning when it is small than after it has become a roaring blaze...
...experts, who thought they had the Kentucky Derby winner all doped out. When ten of the nation's best three-year-olds paraded to the post in New York's Experimental Free Handicap No. 2, the horseplayers, agreeing with the experts, made Joseph J. Colando's blaze-faced bay colt Uncle Miltie an overwhelming odds-on (7-20) choice to come galloping home with the $18,500 purse...
Fire engines streamed into the Mount Auburn Street sector once again at 9:30 p.m. last night, bringing a crowd of expectant students into the streets within minutes, Claverly was not the victim this time, however; the "blaze" was merely an awning fire in front of the Gold Coast Valeteria, started by a cigarette butt dropped from a window above. A similar accident occurred about a year...