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Word: blaze (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incorruptible. In Chicago, after feeding without charge the cops and firemen who were battling a blaze near his restaurant, Al Lee found a parking ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Moors residents doused the blaze with tap water a minute later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moors Gets A Close Shave As Flesh-Pot Bubbleth Over | 1/17/1951 | See Source »

...fire companies answered the subsequent alarm quickly, and put out the blaze before it could spread to adjoining rooms. Though the sofa was completely destroyed, and some clothing damaged, Eugene R. Hurley, Jr. '53, an occupant of the room, estimated damage at less than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaze in Dudley Quickly Nipped | 12/13/1950 | See Source »

Rumor shrouds the tombs thicker than their sagging ivy wines. Campus reports say that Skull and Bones men will leave the room when their society is mentioned; that firemen once entered Berzelius to douse a blaze and had to be accepted as members; that hair-raising and lascivious practices occur inside the meeting-place vaults. Actually the "spooks"--as sour-grapes outsiders call them--take their membership very seriously. Henry L. Stimson always stayed with fellow Bonesmen in Paris, rather than with the ambassador; Professor F. O. Matthiessen laid his Bones Key on a farewell note before jumping...

Author: By John J. Back, Edward J. Coughlin, and Rudolph Kass, S | Title: Yale: for God, Country, and Success | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

Nine fire trucks were on the scene within two minutes and quickly put out the blaze before much damage was done to a nearby wall. The fire caused confusion as students rushed to save trunks stored in the basement rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oiled Rags Cause Thayer Hall Fire | 11/24/1950 | See Source »

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