Word: firemanning
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...siding at Tennant, on the Iowa plains, a freight engine crew scrambled from the cab when a steam pipe burst. With brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great Western's night Omaha-Minneapolis passenger train. Four miles south of Tennant with its headlight shrouded...
...called to men in the yard, and dropped the baby from the second-story window. In the smoke and darkness they thought she was tossing a bundle of clothes, let it fall, dragged it 20 feet from the house, left it in the snow. Half an hour later a fireman heard the baby cry, picked it up unharmed...
Fire, attributed by janitor Sheehan to careless smoking, caused considerable damage to several first floor rooms of an exclusive Harvard undergraduate lodging house at 59 Plympton Street, Cambridge, on Saturday night, and injured one city fireman...
...injured fireman is Joseph C. Bedard, '40, who, witnesses said, was struck by debris and parts of the sofa hurled out of the window by his mates. He was rushed to the Cambridge city hospital in a police ambulance and found to have received severe back contusions. He was given treatment and held by the hospital for further observation...
...right on the spot, Vag made a noble resolution. If ever he made a lot of money--the absurdity of the idea rather appealed to him--he would come back to Harvard and give them a brand new, fire-proof, fireman--proof museum with "I wandered lonely as a could" written across the front in Albanian. And now Vag's only worry is that someone may do this before he gets around...