Word: chimneyed
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...tank exploded. Short-circuited auto horns set up a doleful din. Towns up Buzzard's Bay and along the Cape Cod Canal were devastated. A steeple in East Bridgewater fell point first through the roof of its own church. At Northfield Seminary a falling chimney killed two girls, injured 20. "Old Ironsides," torn from her moorings in Boston Navy Yard, was badly battered...
...Yard, workmen separted bricks from mortar as they saved every bit of the Harvard Hall chimney they could find, for it is irreplacable. The bricks, lumber, and even nails are all hand made and duplicate cannot be obtained in this...
...lasted until 10 o'clock. During that time nothing was spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a ten foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarm and drew three fire engines. Another chimney plunged through the roof of the School of Education. Slate from Wigglesworth Hall's roof whirled across the street, and is blamed for the breaking...
...Every water closet shall be provided with a local vent. ... It shall be carried upward or into a heated flue or into the kitchen chimney...
...shivered, for the chimney cast a long shadow over him and an evening breeze was already ruffling the Charles. Slipping on some trousers and bundling his blanket, he crawled along the sharp ridge over to a gable window. He felt indescribably exuberant, for in three weeks he would be on his way to the mountains...