Word: blazing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flames six times between 1849 and 1851 with a total property loss of about $20,000,000. San Francisco gentlemen then organized volunteer fire brigades whose uniforms outdazzled those of the Vigilantes and whose members fought freely for the privilege of breaking the first window at a blaze. For twelve years these fraternities added to the excitement of a city where it was noted that "a man cannot walk home of an evening without his head being round all quarters at once, on the lookout for a slung shot." In 1862 San Francisco acquired its first paid fire department...
...conflagration of the Crystal Palace last week sent towering 500 feet in air a column of flame seen by rustics in eight counties round about and was called the biggest London blaze since the historic "Great Fire" of 1666. One of 90 fire engines which struggled vainly to save the Exhibition Hall accidentally soused His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the youngest son of Queen Mary, who was nicknamed by playfellows at school as "The Scent Bottle." In last week's unreeling of an Empire crisis, sleek, scented Kent was most of the time an orchidaceous extra waiting...
...Francisco, winding up a mediocre season in a blaze of intersectional glory, St. Mary's came from behind to beat Temple...
Climaxing their season in a blaze of glory, the Jayvees conquered their Eli opponents this afternoon on the Anthony Thompson field, 13-0. Playing a wide open game, the Crimson eleven scored on a long pass from Kelly to Houghton in the second period and a long run of Bob Burnett's in the final frame...
...case the University has an exemplary fire record. Taking last year as an example, reports include one blaze of the Kirkland House dining hall awning, several bonfires in the streets, and a smudge fire in the Advocate Building. This last promised to be a real conflagration, as the structure is one of Cambridge's "naturals" among firetraps, but the engines arrived on time as usual, and nothing happened, causing mixed sentiments among the large crowd of students who had gathered to look...