Word: fire-proof
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...last someone has been found who actually peruses our "Through The Years," column, worthy chronicle of the doings of yesteryear at Harvard. Prominent in that section of the editorial page of yesterday's paper was an announcement in the reprints of 1909 stating that a "large fire-proof building is being constructed at the Herbarium to serve as a place for the preservation of classified specimens...
...Herbarium a large fire-proof building is being constructed to serve as a place for the preservation of classified specimens. The structure will be completed by December...
...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...
Along with the development of Oak Ridge station and the increased collection of plates, a collection numbering five hundred thousand, it became imperative to construct a fire-proof building for their storage. In 1931 the erection of the Astrophotographic Building of the Harvard Observatory began. It was dedicated in the spring...
...ornamental, as well as useful, building to Harvard's wonderful equipment. Surely no building could be erected that would be of such practical benefit to Harvard as a permanent home for the Debating Council. Several graduates have already stated their willingness to donate books to the Council when a fire-proof building is erected for its use. Other suggestions for adding the Council will be presented later...