Word: fireproofed
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...campuses, the paper said editorially, "But a close breakdown reveals that it is our campus which is archaic, not the rules which are simply an adjustment to this condition. For instance smoking rules (Smith girls cannot smoke in their rooms), the paper said, exists because the dormitories aren't fireproof. Dormitory rules on returning are so rigid, it explained, because the campus is to discuss...
...year the building was opened, a Boston paper stated that "complete destruction of the building by fire is practically impossible," since each hallway could be divided into three fireproof compartments by closing iron fire doors...
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...
...distinguished from solid paneling. They even turned out plywood pipe, got $5,000,000 worth of orders for it in World War II as a light, portable radar mast. Of the 20 basic plywood and related products now sold by Ottinger, the newer ones include plywood office doors as fireproof as steel, and tabletops which cigarettes cannot...
...University Museum, one of 48 sprinkler-equipped buildings, is checked four times weekly by the Patrol. The extra attention, Husk and Fraser explain, is because the building is not fireproof Fogg Museum, housing many valuable objets d'art that would suffer almost as much from water as from fire, is protected by carbon dioxide...