Word: extinguishing
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Thereafter students delighted in the fad and were infinitely amused by tutors who tried to extinguish the blazes. The students added more excitement to the whole business by selecting the College Pump-sole source of water in the Yard-as the place for the fires...
Seventeenth century students were not satisfied with setting fires but soon took to fighting them. They organized a volunteer fire department and raced through town on joy rides whether or not there was a fire and whether or not the townsfolk wanted them to extinguish it. The students were justified in their stimulation, though: restrictions that held them in the Yard were lifted whenever the word "Fire!" was heard. One historian claims that the young men also looked forward after fire-fighting to relieving their parched throats with firewater at the local...
Another fire early Saturday morning caused several thousand dollars damage at the Lampoon building. This blaze destroyed a fifteenth-century fireplace and damaged a wall. The caretaker of the building had tried to extinguish the fire, but it broke out again and attracted the attention of a passing policeman at about 7 a.m. The fireplace may be reconstructed, "but it will be very expensive," Perry M. Smith '59, president of the Lampoon, commented...
...last year, are heading for $500 million in 1958. Every day almost 10 million U.S. men use aerosol shaving creams, and more than 10 million women put on aerosol hair sprays. The 250 different aerosol products on the market can stop runs in hosiery, smoke bees out of hives, extinguish fires, bandage wounds and deodorize homes, pets or people. Said a Manhattan merchandising expert: "People will buy anything in those fascinating pushbutton cans-even air." Aerosol men agreed. Recently Liquid Glaze, Inc. brought out an aerosol can of compressed gas called Spair, which can inflate a flat tire...
...Midwest and Far West the farm problem and the unpopularity of Secretary of Agriculture Benson continue to plague the Republicans. Even if Benson retires in February, a likely possibility, it is inconceivable that the new Secretary of Agriculture could solve the farm problem before election time or could extinguish farmer discontent. In addition, since 1952, the GOP has polled fewer and fewer votes in the Far Western states, excepting Utah. The currently deepening economic recession in the Pacific Northwest also lessens Republican strength in that area...