Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry water in buckets to put out this fire. This has been a very expensive method. Now we think we have progressed and should have a volunteer fire department and a fire engine. We are now going to test the efficiency of the company and try out the hose we have acquired...
...creatures they were, about an inch high; their bodies were uncouth but agile ? spindle-shanked, with rotund small bellies; they had pendulous cheeks, tiny eyes and huge mouths, capable of infinite expression. They could wear any clothes with an odd look, but their noirmal garb was doublet and hose, worn with a tasseled cap peculiar to their order...
...from a match or pocket flash at one end of a fused quartz rod 25 feet long passed through the tube without appreciable loss of illumination. Further, the light travels intact through bent and twisted tubes, around corners, no matter how long or devious the way, just as a hose carries water...
Spring, as Botticelli so aptly put it, comes all in a lump. It is heralded by many things, by the zephyr, by the crocus, by false alarms, by the appearance of checkered golf hose, by a certain fever. Not least is it characterized by what might be called the de-hibernation of athletics...
...minutes of axe and chemical extinguisher sufficed to finish the fire, but during that time the students had made practically every possible comment on the firemen's prowess. The fire fighters suddenly replied with a spray from the chemical hose, which squelched many of the bright remarks...