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...tenors. It suited him, that particular spot. He stopped. Tenderly de Luca coaxed him. Bravely, as bravely as his padded fat form would let him, he pulled and coaxed and pulled, with no influence at all on the Dapple of the evening, who stood as fixed as a hydrant until the curtain was dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Announcement | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...Lampoon building was surrounded with a stream of running water which covered the sidewalks and ran into the cellar, on Wednesday, when a five ton truck rolled down Plympton Street and crashed into a hydrant behind the Lampoon building. The hydrant was snapped off short, and for nearly two hours a 20-foot column of water spouted into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy Gets Drenched by Accident | 11/30/1923 | See Source »

...loss was largely due to the delay in getting water on the blaze when a hydrant failed to work. Not until almost an hour after the alarm sounded did the firemen succeed in cutting through the roof and getting an effective stream on the blaze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spee Club Badly Damaged By Fire | 4/23/1917 | See Source »

...surrounded by a four foot wooden wall and outside of that a low bank of loam to keep in the water. A high fence is being put up on the north side of the rink to protect it from wind and snow. The rink will be flooded from the hydrant used last year and from two new hydrants, which have been installed under the Stadium. No work has been done yet on the second rink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Hockey Rink Completed | 12/4/1905 | See Source »

...rink will be 180 feet long and 80 feet wide, surrounded by a wooden wall four feet high. Outside of this, loam will be placed to prevent the water from leaking. As soon as the weather is cold enough, the field will be flooded by means of a hydrant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Work on Rink in Stadium Begun | 11/29/1905 | See Source »

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