Word: first-floor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Claverly Hall had its second fire in a week last night when a first-floor paint closet burst into flames. The blaze lasted only for a short time. The first alarm was sounded by Herbert W. Berger '53 who smelled smoke as he entered the building at 9 p.m. last night. He ran down the rear stairway to the basement door and saw flames inside the closet...
Strong faculty opposition to combining Widener's two card catalogues into a mammoth first-floor unit, which broke out in last week's faculty meeting, mounted yesterday as petitions circulated against the proposal. Under the plan, the charging desk would also be moved to the first floor...
...Skills. As a first step, the patients were moved to big, airy, first-floor wards with a view of the river's tug and barge traffic. Instead of cluttering the place with terrifyingly complicated equipment, everything was made as casual and simple as possible. Each patient was put to work for an average of five hours a day, learning or relearning the "100 average daily living skills." Each was assigned a card listing the skills to be acquired (e.g., walking, turning on lights, opening doors, turning over in bed, combing one's hair). When one skill was mastered...
...Rescue. Before fire trucks sirened to the scene from two miles away, the fire had shot from a first-floor room up a dumb waiter, was licking through all three floors. In rows of flame-lit windows, terrorstricken women shrieked and pounded at wire mesh and steel bars which imprisoned them in cell-like rooms; before the firemen had arrived many had fallen silent and disappeared in the flames. Mrs. Anna Neal, a 55-year-old nurse on duty in the ward, led some of her patients into the night, rushed back into the fire to rescue more...
...first-floor suite at the Ritz last week, the day after he had seen his London doctor for the last time, Peter refused the breakfast proffered by his valet. "I am going up to see a friend on the sixth floor," he said. Then in blue pajamas and red dressing gown, he groped his way up the stairs to the valet's own room. A moment later a waiter looked up to see a red-clad figure sitting on the window sill. Then all that was left of Lucky Beatty lay crumpled on the pavement below...