Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been taken in accordance with the Commissioner's warning; in the second place, it is possible that the death warrant may be retracted if other dormitories are crowded next year. Both of these conditions should be rectified at once; there is no excuse for not removing the fire hazard, and the only excuse for not making the condemnation final and independent of crowding elsewhere, is the precedent set by the University's general noncommital policy...
Immediately the University made a careful inspection of the building to ascertain in what respect the fire hazard might be minimized, and took action by distributing in all dormitories a printed notice defining the regulations for the use of base plugs, electric stoves and external wiring...
...GLEN HAZARD-Maristan Chapman-Knopf...
Geologists have paid curiously little attention to the event at Durango. Local men hazard diverse opinions. One supposes that coal beds deep within Carbon Mountain have ignited, generating gas which is bursting the mountain apart and forming cavities into which the mountain collapses. For evidence the burning-coal theorists point to a gas-like hissing which often accompanies a rock slide, to the sulfurous smell, and to pieces of shale charred red and yellow. On the other hand. Dr. S. Boyd Calkins, science teacher in the Durango high school, points to the earthy effusions which last week oozed from Carbon...
...Stanton Chapman), before "her" identity was discovered, had already begun to make a name as a writer of mountaineer stories, was regarded by some critics as a competitor if not a rival of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. But barring hillbilly dialect and more pointed characterization than thrillers usually carry, Glen Hazard competes with nothing more literarily ambitious than a detective story...