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Word: firemen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...third fire recently was extinguished by students without firemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Lose Track of Claverly Hall Arsonist | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

This peaceful ending did not affect the long dispute involving the operating unions (enginemen, firemen, "sick" switchmen, etc.), which for the past year has periodically blown up in strikes, threats, bitter recriminations, and is still as explosive as a powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: One Sweet Note | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...handball court was built at the south east corner of the building, but this has long fallen into disuse, as has the swimming pool of white tile and marble next to the court. The pool is usually kept locked; firemen had to break down the door during Tuesday's blaze...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Claverly, Erected With Eye to Fire Protection, Ushered In University's Plush Gold Coast Era | 3/10/1951 | See Source »

Safety First. In Perth, Australia, firemen insisted that they would have been able to control the fire in a department store if only they had been able to break through the fireproof steel door the store had installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...took cracks at the "Abie's Irish Rose boys." He charged that Recall Leader Charles A. Wagner had walked out on his first wife, "taking all the wedding presents with him." For good measure, Little Orvie also belabored the Dearborn police ("one drives while the other sleeps") and firemen ("one day on, two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Up Rose Little Orvie Then | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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