Word: fireproof
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...kept count of the rescued. Of the ward's 68 patients, 39 women patients and Nurse Neal were dead. After the injured were tended and the funeral services arranged, the investigators would come, asking a pertinent question: why had the 60-year-old hospital building not been made fireproof? Fire Chief Lester Schick said that almost a year before he had urged the installation of a sprinkler system, but nothing was done about it. At Christmas, for the first time in years, hospital authorities had decided against having a lighted Christmas tree in the corridor of the mental ward...
When Houghton Library opened, three months after Pearl Harbor, it was described as "fireproof, earthquake-proof, and reasonably protected against the incendiary bomb." The fire inspector looked the place over and classified it in the same category as a bank vault. And now, the staff at its parvenu neighbor Lamont, (which the Houghton people refer to as "Uncle Tom's Cabin"), call it the "Jewel Box." For, besides being the University's most sumptuous bookshelf, Houghton acts as show case and safe deposit vault for one of the world's finest collections of rare books and documents...
...smoking rooms are highlighted by soft leather chairs and benches plus modernistic bridge sets. When the building was first designed, these rooms were not considered necessary in a "fireproof" structure, but they were included and students prohibited to smoke elsewhere so that Moors residents should not have room-smoking privileges not enjoyed by other 'Cliffe residents...
...read the stories for relaxation but with a sharp eye for scientific errors. Clubs are often organized by fans who hold regular discussion meetings and publish such magazines as Fandom Speaks, Fantasy Review, Macabre, The Gorgon and Lunacy. One Californian keeps his precious 2,000-volume collection in a fireproof concrete vault...
...Chalmers thought so. As bandaged students went back to class, alumni and friends across the U.S. were writing and wiring offers to help. At week's end, Kenyon trustees voted to conduct a million-dollar drive to duplicate the old building, using the old stones, with a modern, fireproof interior...