Word: blaze
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...Lowell House fire bell system failed to function, leaving many students unaware of the blaze until they were awakened by shouts and whistles from police, firemen and other students...
Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, said yesterday that the signal came when the fire melted wires in the Lowell House fire bell system, causing a short circuit. Two minutes later a heat detector was triggered, Hall said, alerting police and fire departments to the blaze...
...Cambridge Fire Marshall's Office is investigating the origin of the blaze. No official report has been released, but spokesmen for both the Harvard police and the fire department speculated yesterday that a lit cigarette discarded in York's closet caused the fire...
...presence of these active forces of anti-life, as well as the passive bystanders-Martha's relatives-Miss Douglas refuses to write a happy ending to her fairy tale. Martha and Lucas go up in the sort of gorgeous ritual blaze of self-destruction that besets Southern-Gothic houses in Southern-Gothic novels. But Martha and Lucas qualify, in Miss Douglas' phrase, as "celebrators of life"-and so does she, dramatizing with all the reason and passion at her command the bland and heinous modern crime of burying one's ancestors before they are dead...
Like now-retired New York Jet head man Weeb Ewbank, Harvard varsity lacrosse coach Bruce Munro is learning that not all illustrious coaching careers end in a blaze of glory. Munro, retiring at the end of this season after 26 years at Harvard, at best will field another scrappy unit that will have to fight to keep itself out of the Ivy League cellar...