Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minutes three hook-and-ladders and seven chemical and hose trucks came from Brighton and Cambridge to fight the fire. Hose was dragged into the Varsity room and after the framed photographs of crews of past years had been religiously removed the entire room was well sprayed. Axes were used to cut holes in the ceiling and corner of the room where the smoke was worst. With great difficulty, because of the ice on the floats ladders were placed and firemen climbed to the roof where holes were made through the tiles and water was poured in. The fire...
...eleven lined up against Tufts on June 4. The game was played at Jarvis Field, and the "Harvards," as the University eleven was at the time referred to by the press, created a sensation by being clothed in white sweaters with a magenta "H," "white pants," and "crimson hose...
...divers worked at the depth of 127 ft. in great difficulties. They had to be careful not to entangle their own ropes, wires, and air hose in the antennae, which would have been fatal. An hour was all they could stay down at a time. Exploring in the interior of the submarine with their bulky suits, with 24-pound weights on their feet and lead-weighted belts was difficult and dangerous. About an hour and a half was spent in raising them to the surface after each descent. They were raised 15 ft. and then allowed a rest while they...
Louis D'Arclay gave a spirited performance as Chico, the sewer rat who never let life get the better of him. When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden...
Gardeners who have attempted to down elusive butterflies with a hose opined that even with the new gun anti-aircraft marksmen will scarcely have it all their own way; shook their heads doubtfully even when informed that the tracer bullets will be visible to a height of 7,500 ft. at night...