Word: fireproof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes five seconds to light a cigaret, ten seconds for a cigar or pipe, on the average. A match burns one-half inch from its tip in ten seconds. If the stub were fireproof many a careless fire would be prevented...
...architect, like its architecture, was Italian: Adamo Boari. Other Latins and one Hungarian did some sculpture. A feature is the Tiffany glass screen-a glass mosaic fireproof curtain weighing 27 tons, academically decorated to illustrate the legend of volcanoes Ixtaccihuatl and Popocatepetl, Aztec lovers. When the theatre's site was excavated, workmen uncovered the steeple of a church which had sunk in the swampy ground. For months giant pumps injected concrete under the foundation, uselessly. The dome is unfinished but the structure has a roof. It is used for automobile shows, concerts. To raise more money the government once...
...about your casting such aspersions against Boston, as that was the only town in America where a speech of mine was quoted correctly. I had no idea, when I consented to give an interview in Walt Whitman's house in Camden (to help raise funds to make it fireproof) that I would be letting myself in for so much unfortunate publicity. No sooner did I reach New York than someone showed me a clipping from the New York World saying that I "mourned for America" (which is just the opposite of my true feelings-I have the most tremendous...
...Hall, and Mr. Patterson is busy with the weekly Liberty and New York Daily News and with extended airplane cruises (TIME, Jan. 14). It was recalled, last week, that the maternal grandfather of these men, Joseph Medill. was elected Mayor in 1871, running, after the great fire, on a "Fireproof ticket. Among other possible candidates, Hale Holden, railroader, has more than local interests, and Richard Crane (Crane valves) is only a part-time Chicagoan. A great Chicago enterprise is International Harvester Co.. but its present head, Alexander Legge (TIME, Jan. 14) is too preoccupied with the world's harvests...
...motions, magnitudes, and variations of the stars and other celestial objects; they are studied not only by the Observatory staff, but also by frequent visitors from observatories in America and abroad. The collection is being increased at the rate of approximately 4000 plates annually, so rapidly that an additional fireproof plate vault must be erected soon...