Word: extinguishment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Action started by a fire in front of Weld Hall. While Apted's men were rushing to extinguish this blaze, a second fire appeared in front of Hollis Hall. Police following the migration of the crowds to the new point of excitement, arrived there only to find that the rioters had produced a third fire just as the second was succumbing to Apted fury...
...extinguish the monstrous anomaly is to revive the Latin requirement in its full power, for all those who wish to enter Harvard. But this course would clearly be a retrogression...
...spinning coil provide very fine separation by density. The super contactor was de-signed to extract from petroleum certain hydrocarbons never before obtained in the pure state, to produce heavy water and other valuable isotopes cheaply, to remove from liquor impurities which not even long years of aging can extinguish...
...clock exodus, had left one of the trap doors of the incinerator open. A few minutes later a passer-by flipped a cigaret into the opening, whence it dropped to the basement on a pile of refuse. It took the services of the whole House janitorial staff to extinguish the blaze, which threatened to asphyxiate the residents of the upper floors...
Everyone enjoyed a wonderful time as the chief or one of his important deputies was sent on the perilous trip up a ten foot ladder in order to extinguish a smoldering rag on top of an awning at the Charles Restaurant. His was the delicate task of chopping out a part of the framework of the window without marring the much-dirtied glass two and a half inches below. He was assisted by kindly Fate and the crowd was able to return to their beds knowing that the city fathers were adequately protecting their lives and property...