Word: blazingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plant and soon had enveloped the entire old structure, which is located at 123 Oliver Street. At the height of the configuration the side walls caved in under the weight of heavy machinery on the second floor and it is believed that only one wall remained standing when the blaze was finally extinguished through the combined efforts of every fire company in the city. Nine of the fire fighters injured were caught under the collapsing walls while the other one suffered from exposure...
...nighttime last week fire again came to destroy the monastery. The monks hastily pulled on their squared-toed shoes, their black gowns; they ran to the student dormitories and herded the sleepy boys to safety. They knew that they had neither chance nor means to extinguish the blaze. Water was too scant in the mountains. They telephoned Fort Smith. The night telephone operator there saw their signal flashing redly from her switchboard; asked, respectfully, what they wished; put them in instant connection with the Fort Smith fire department...
...original building was built in 1672, but was destroyed by fire in 1764, when the Massachusetts General Court was holding sessions in it, having been driven out of Boston by an epidemic of smallpox. "The Massachusetts Gazette" of February 2 gives a graphic account of the blaze...
...Legion's visit. Out came the bunting and the banners of welcome all over the city. Signposts in English would direct the former doughboys to the sights of Paris. And immediately those sights began to take on colorful decorations. From base to summit the Eiffel Tower would be a blaze of electric lights. And forthwith the Champs Elysees began to erect two chains of bulbs, six inches apart, from the Arc de Triomphe clear down to the Place de la Concorde. Far more than 100,000 extra electric lights will be used in la ville de lumiere on this occa...
...Washburn, Me., the Sir John Carlmo came down undamaged. ¶ The same day the Royal Windsor jumped up from Windsor, Ontario, and headed east. Late that night a telephone tinkled tidings to tho world from St. Johns, Quebec. The Royal Windsor had landed with one wing afire. The blaze was extinguished. Regretfully Flyers Clarence Schiller and Phil Wood took from the ship a wreath marked "Nungesser-Coli" which they had hoped to drop as a memorial into the vast grey sea. ¶For nearly a mile a huge Farman Bluebird snorted and rolled, gathering speed at Le Bourget Field, Paris...