Word: fire-proof
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...building is as nearly fire-proof as can be made, a precaution necessary to preserve the priceless collections of books and classified specimens. The only wooden furniture in the building is that once used by Dr. Gray, now preserved in the office of Professor Robinson. The equipment is well adapted for the most specialized use of the botanist. From the dark room for photography to the indexed cases for maps everything is fire-proof, specialized and modern...
...building will, of course, be a modern, fire-proof construction, with self-closing doors, stand-pipes and a fire alarm system. Complete ventilating and electrical interconnecting systems will be installed in the new building, and, as far as possible, in those parts of the older building not so equipped. The architects are McKim, Mead and White, who have previously designed the club-house in its successive stages of development, this being the third extensive addition
Work has been continued on the rebuilding of the Gray Herbarium in fire-proof materials. Much of the central part of the building has already been remodeled, and the contract for the remaining work has recently been let. In the near future the whole structure will be fire-proof according to the most modern standards...
...well and safely for several years; but one day a huge pot of melted fat took fire on one of the ranges; and immediately the kitchens were filled with hot smoke, which soon rushed through the ventilating fine and heated it to a dangerous degree. The city fire department quickly extinguished the flames before the fire had burnt through the floor of the dining room; but the escape of the building from destruction was so narrow, that the Corporation later caused a fire-proof floor to be substituted in the Hall for the preceding hollow structure of wood...
These various losses and alarms induced the Corporation, after 1872, to take certain precautions against the spread of fire in their old buildings; and after 1880 to use, or ask for,--"slow-burning" or "fire-proof" construction in their new buildings...