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Word: blazed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire which broke out-in the Converse Laboratories gave a Harvard Research student several anxious moments yesterday morning. Alone on the third floor with his apparatus the aspiring chemist was proceeding with his experiments when a sudden blaze broke out and he was forced to take refuge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Research Student Nearly Trapped in Lab. Fire | 11/9/1934 | See Source »

...Would blaze as if they caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sister Singers | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

Third Assistant Engineer Arthur Stamper stuck manfully at his post below deck, later fought the blaze on deck for three hours. What did the radio officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: When? What? Why? | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...then his watch might have stopped during the night. At 1 a. m., said another passenger; at 1:10 a. m., said a third who saw people stamping out a wastepaper fire in the writing room. At 2:55 a. m., said a smoke-room steward who found a blaze in a writing room locker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: When? What? Why? | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Nobody knows. Perhaps a drunkard threw a cigaret in a wastepaper basket. Perhaps there was a short circuit. Perhaps radicals set the blaze. Captain Warms and, by no coincidence, the whole Ward Line leans to the last theory. If arson can be proved, the line will be freed of criminal negligence liability. The owners of the Vestris were sued for $5,000,000 in personal liability claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: When? What? Why? | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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