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Word: fired (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying off of a sprinkler cap on the top floor of University Hall, just under the roof, yesterday at about 2 o'clock caused the rapid appearance of three fire engines in the Yard. The only damage caused was from the water of the sprinkler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAYWARD SPRINKLER DRAWS THREE FIRE ENGINES TO YARD | 4/4/1928 | See Source »

...automatic sprinklers throw out water under any pressure of heat, and incidentally send in a fire call. The exact cause could not be ascertained, according to the Chief of the Cambridge Fire Department. Both he and C. R. Apted, superintendent of caretakers, refused to offer any speculations as to the probable cause of the disturbance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAYWARD SPRINKLER DRAWS THREE FIRE ENGINES TO YARD | 4/4/1928 | See Source »

Fever is one of the first weapons of the body. When an infection sets in, the old organism stokes up the furnace, heats up the blood, sends it racing round in hot haste to destroy the enemy. At one time the best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Favorable Fevers | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...huge pine tree caught fire in Leaf, Miss., and a bus full of school children started out for school. As the car bumped along the road, the tree tottered; when the car was precisely under it, the pine tree leaned slowly and fell, as true as a golden hammer, killing the driver and five of the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tree vs. Children | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...West New York, N. J., at a rubber plant, a fire occurred which destroyed the lives of 23 cats which, like the plant, belonged to one Charles Cholerton. One only of all Charles Cholerton's cats escaped; a smoky grimalkin, she came slinking from a fiery window, her eyes lit with warm red fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Tree vs. Children | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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