Word: extinguish
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Four engine companies of two pieces each, two ladder trucks, a rescue truck, and most of the Cambridge police force jammed the center of the Square at 8 o'clock last night to extinguish a configuration in the bedroom of Miss V. M. Union of 20 Boylston Street...
Five fire engines were summoned yesterday to extinguish a raging fire in the Wigglesworth Hall room of Robert W. Lerner '43. The conflagration, the biggest the Yard has seen in over a dozen years, completely destroyed one of the most expensive Freshman suites, with an estimated damage of over...
...change was approved by U. S. Secretary-of State Cordell Hull, who officially announced: "Mere seizure of territory . . . does not extinguish the legal existence of a government. . . . For the present at least Mr. [Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel] Biddle will remain near the government to which he has been accredited...
SINCE fire fighting is not a regular course of study at Vassar, they have left it all to the fire department. In fact there is a rule forbidding girls to extinguish a fire, even if they can do it with a glass of water. "Lose a minute and save a fire" is their motto...
...hand fighting. Five flights of German or Italian-built bombers poured death onto the hillsides. Four battalions of Rightists held the Santa Maria heights. Basque defenders, punished beyond belief reformed for their last desperate resistance to the grim, tightening circle with which Generalissimo Francisco Franco hoped finally to extinguish the proud Basque boast which had stood for 700 years...