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Word: cold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thirteen department units came across the street from the Cambridge Fire Station to fight the fire. Hampered by the bitter cold and by what they called the "structural unsoundness" of the building, firemen stayed through the afternoon to extinguish smoldering embers...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Fire Destroys Economics Building | 1/9/1968 | See Source »

Columbia used its great height and depth to demolish Yale Friday 100-72 and then turned on cold-shooting Brown Saturday to post a 71-47 victory. Seven-foot center Dave Newmark began to perform like a super-star, tallying 40 points against the Bulldogs and then teaming with sophomore brilliant Jim McMillan for a combined 40 against Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two-Team Battle Looms In Ivy League Basketball | 1/9/1968 | See Source »

Quick work by Boston firemen and the Harvard Buildings and Grounds staff saved vital experimental material, representing ten years' research by one of the laboratory's directors, that was being stored in the lab's "cold room...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Medical School Explosion Injures Two, Destroys Lab, Causes $100,000 Damage | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

...materials for Dr. Gill's ten-year research into synthetic polypeptides were being stored in the lab's "cold room" refrigerators. In his research, Dr. Gill was studying antigens and the antibody response they cause in humans. The cultures in the cold room were irreplaceable, Dr. Gill said...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Medical School Explosion Injures Two, Destroys Lab, Causes $100,000 Damage | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

Henry C. Meadow, associate dean of Medicine for financial affairs, said that the cold room cultures were saved only by the "extraordinarily cooperative" work of the firemen. "The firemen spoke with the people in charge of the lab," Meadow said, "and tried to save the cold room material." Dr. Gill also praised the efforts of the B.&G. staff. According to Meadow, the loss was mainly in chemicals and instrumentation. "The basic materials were saved," he said...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Medical School Explosion Injures Two, Destroys Lab, Causes $100,000 Damage | 1/8/1968 | See Source »

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