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Word: fire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fire!" has always been an irrestable invitation for students to stop whatever they are doing and gather at the scene. Throughout its history the University has had its share of misfortune due to fires, which concern University Hall not only because of the losses incurred but because of students' antics during the blazes...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Officials Cool to Harvard Fires But Blazes Ignite Student Spirit | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Officials Cool to Harvard Fires But Blazes Ignite Student Spirit | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

...heard tapes of Kris singing and playing folk songs he had written himself, quickly signed up the young scholar. Sample of Kris's pleasant, blues-tinged lyrics (his songs neither rock nor roll), suggested by the summers he spent working on Wake Island, laboring with railroad crews and fire-fighting gangs in Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Oxonian Blues | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

George Wilcken Romney, at 51, is a broad-shouldered, Bible-quoting broth of a man who burns brightly with the fire of missionary zeal. On the Lord's Day, and whenever else he can find time, he is a fervent apostle for the Mormon Church, in which he is a high official. But at all other times his missionary zeal is best defined by a plaque that hangs in the walnut-paneled Detroit office where he reigns as boss of American Motors. A facetious gift from the Cleveland Auto Dealers Association, it reads: "To George Romney, critic, lecturer, anthropologist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Bravo (Armada; Warner) is a major ($3,000,000) attempt by Hollywood to outgun the six-gunslingers who have recently been pumping the TV audience full of lead (TIME, March 30). The trouble is, Producer-Director Howard Hawks has put too many shooting irons in the fire. The picture has not one but three heroes (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson); they divide the sympathies and overpopulate the screen. For another thing, the film lasts almost as long (2 hr. 21 min.) as five TV westerns laid end to end-and it makes about as little consecutive sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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