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Word: firemen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Firemen raised a ladder to the third floor window and completed the job of extinguishing the fire with fog-spray equipment. One wall and a section of floor were partially burned through, and a couch, a rug, and two pairs of skis were destroyed. Steven C. Swett '56 and William E. Lingelbach '56, residents of the room, estimated personal property damage at about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutor, 2 Students Save Third Floor In Winthrop Fire | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

...when his contemporaries dreamed of becoming cowboys or firemen, seven-year-old Lucas Marsh already knew his life work: he would be a doctor. He was handicapped from the first. Mamma, a neurotic and mystic who believed that only the spirit could heal, hated the very idea of medicine and hysterically begged Luke to forget it. Daddy Marsh, the crude, unscrupulous owner of a string of harness shops, insisted that Luke shift his sights to business and the big money. Luke obediently said yes, mother, yes, dad; but what his parents never knew was that they had produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Ode to Hippocrates | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Over 250 spectators withstood the subfreezing temperatures to watch the firemen in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weld Rooms Burn In Midnight Fire | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

Workout. In Baltimore, charged with turning in three false alarms, Alvin Anay angrily explained: "I don't like to see firemen sitting around. If they don't get exercise, they get stale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 21, 1953 | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

...Firemen arrived quickly, smashed the outside of the windows, and then extinguished the blaze by extending hoses through the newsroom into the photo office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Starts in Crimson Photo Room | 12/1/1953 | See Source »

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