Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large-scale blaze swept through the Bat Club last night, gutting the interiors of the second and third floors of the 53 Mt. Auburn St. building. A crowd of about 300 cheering, yelling students braved the below-freezing temperatures and crowded the streets for 45 minutes to watch the fire...
...Caesarean ambitions, but he did not tiptoe into his reign; he stomped in boldly like the owner of the place, throwing open windows and moving furniture around. When the portly Pope (robed in the too-tight papal vestments excited chamberlains had selected for him) appeared in a blaze of searchlights last week on St. Peter's balcony to administer his first Urbi et orbi blessing, he noticed many clerics who had left the sealed-off conclave area to watch the occasion. Later he jokingly told them: "You have all just incurred excommunication. But I shall use my new authority...
Last night Deputy Fire Chief William Cremins said that the cause of the blaze was "spontaneous combustion, which may have developed from smoldering remnants of last week's fire." He doubted that there would be further investigation by the Cambridge fire department...
...Band Room had been inspected by the Marshal only four days before the blaze. However, Manager George L. Kirklin '59 pointed out that the areas condemned by the Marshal were not near the starting point of the fire...
Investigations by the Cambridge Fire Marshal's office have uncovered infringements of regulations in the Varsity Club, which was partially burned out Monday morning. The City will take no action, and the cause of the blaze remains officially undetermined...