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Taking their first day off of the season, the Varsity baseball team played visiting firemen at the Red Sox-Indians game yesterday afternoon. The only dampener came when the rain descended just before the first inning, causing the game to be postponed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain at Fenway Park | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

...rode on Albuquerque policemen's motorcycles, squealed as they rode up the elevator to the top of Albuquerque's eight-story First National Bank Building. Although their hosts had not planned it, they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: First Cones | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...culmination of a drive initiated soon after last year's Carnival by complaints against "visiting firemen," last night's action by the senior student governing board explained that it had become "necessary for the College to prevent overcrowding of fraternity dances and to fix the responsibility for invited guests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Governing Body at Dartmouth Forced to Limit Carnival Outsiders | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

This action is not directed against lady guests, but is designed to cut down on the number of men from other colleges, or "visiting firemen," who in recent years have been crowding the dances to overflowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Visiting Firemen" Limited Now at Dartmouth Carnival | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

...flying fish flew over the bridge. Just abaft the bridge were two large cowled ventilators leading down into the fireroom. A few minutes later the engineer officer on watch called up through the voice tube that several fish had dropped through a ventilator into the fireroom and the firemen were heating their shovels to cook a late fish supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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