Word: blazes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College fire department soon acquired its own engine, which was tended regularly by students. Once, to keep it in shape, the students set an old house on fire. Because the apparatus was slightly decrepit the boys nearly reached the scene after the neighbors had succeeded in halting the blaze. Undaunted, the students pumped water on the neighbors, who had intruded upon the boys' prerogative. The real compensation for fighting even this blaze was a steak dinner at the Porter House...
...newspaper's primary duty is to stay in business, because it can't take any stand on any moral issue if it isn't printed," Johnson said. He praised the "majority of responsible papers in the South" for choosing to survive instead of "going out in a blaze of glory...
Hallowell said that the Department of Buildings and Grounds has contracted the Tait Brothers construction firm of Belmont for the four-month project. The cost to repair damages, estimated at $20,000 at the time of the blaze, will be covered by insurance, but the money for modernization will come from club funds...
Since Sept. 28, when members were forced to salvage their instruments during the blaze, the Band has maintained temporary headquarters at 52 Dunster St. It is currently raising funds to buy furnishings and to replace lost music...
Fuel Hardy. In Statesville, N.C., Kenneth Turner Bauguess tried his best to keep Police Sergeant C. R. Lloyd from helping him put out a fire in his car, was arrested when Lloyd insisted, ordered him to lift the hood, found that the blaze was caused by a broken jar of bootleg whisky that had caught fire from contact with overheated parts of the engine...