Word: fireproof
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...descend the stairs, we have an excellent view of the stacks of the University Library. There are ten floors of fireproof stacks, seven above and three below ground. In front of you we get a better view of the murals by John Singer Sargent...
Numerous signs attest to the fact that the structure is not of the latest fireproof construction, yet facilities for emptying the building are at best scanty. The wire ladder on the second floor is the single attempt at a means of escape, and this would be difficult to unroll or manipulate, especially as iron bars are secured across the adjacent window...
Away from a Baltimore pier of Maryland Drydock Co. last month churned the world's first all-fireproof ship-the chunky, white, 250-ft S.S. Catherine of Bull Steamship Line, having been taken from her regular Caribbean run and rebuilt from keel up with noncombustible materials, As if this were a monument to his regime, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to improve safety at sea after the Morro Castle fire of 1934, last week resigned his job. Said he: "I feel that the job is about...
Harvard buildings from the incendiary view fall generally into three classes. First are those, like the Houses, which are fireproof. In the upper-class dormitories not only are there a large number of telephones, but also in each janitor's office is a map of Cambridge's 15 Harvard boxes, while the caretakers are themselves instructed in the fine points of ringing in an alarm...
...second group of buildings are the non-fireproof ones, which are equipped with sprinklers and automatic signals. Third class are the rooming houses, College or non-College owned, which lie south of Massachusetts Avenue...