Word: extinguishment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fire brigades from the American and Italian Legations were refused admittance to the sacred precincts. The Chinese bucket brigades were inefficient, and several millions of dollars worth of property were destroyed before an Italian hose, manned by Chinese, was used to extinguish the blaze...
...Ehrensperger's suggestion in the Alumni Bulletin that we extinguish the flames of college radicalism by pouring tea on them, is a little less quaint than it might appear at first blush. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that it would in all probability meet the approval of Mr. Calvin Coolidge himself and the editors of the Delineator. Certain skeptics, it is true, have irreverently questioned the accuracy of Mr. Coolidge's observation, and have asked to be shown signs that there really is any radicalism among college students. They point out that the average undergraduate exceeds...