Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire which destroyed the Adams Wood and Coal Co. at 277 Beacon Street, Somerville yesterday afternoon emitted dense clouds of smoke which attracted scores of Harvard students to the scene of the blaze and so interested the Business School professors that several classes were summarily dismissed. Several of the students assisted the firemen in handling the many hose lines used by engines from four cities...
...fire started by sparks thrown off by a circular saw which ignited a heap of kindling and then spread rapidly through the wood and coal sheds. Firemen were engaged in fighting the blaze for more than two hours...
...beauty of said city, which I have always loved." Architect Arthur Brown Jr., designer of San Francisco's City Hall, designed a monumental lighthouse, a fluted column rising from a severely simple base, its apex pierced with galleries for an observation platform. From its tip will blaze a flame that no fireman can quench, fed by city...
...girl and he had a job. His job was on the night shift of a chemical plant: he had to keep awake, watch gauges, see that no fire started. One night, after one too many drinks, he fell asleep, woke just in time to check a threatening blaze a short-circuit had started. Because a feature-writer for the London Tribune happened to be in the vicinity and short of copy, Charlie became a hero overnight. He left his job, went to London to be lionized, photographed, interviewed, presented with a check for ?500. Charlie was a sensible...
...palpitations of the heart. After the rest, during which Crawford admitted to his doctor that he felt dizzy. Perry ran out on the court apparently fresher than when the match began. He ran off three games, his flat drives equaling anyone's for speed. Crawford let him blaze out the set at love. In the last set, Crawford's gesture of patting his chest as though his heart or his lungs hurt him, became more noticeable. He managed to break through Perry's serve in the third game and then suddenly the deliberate manner that had seemed...