Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then, on September 6, 1956, a worker involved in a project to restore the clock left his blowtorch on. The subsequent inferno raged for four hours and completely destroyed the tower, its clocks and its 3,000-pound bell...
SCIENCE: Dante in the Inferno...
...like a routine job. All they had to do was contain a modest-size fire, stopping its advance or nudging it in a safe direction. And they would do so at an altitude near 7,000 ft. on a 45 degrees slope, staring into the scorch of a natural inferno...
Besides e-mail, students use Harvards' link tothe Internet to read electronic bulletin boardssuch as Usenet news, to join on-line discussiongroups and to carry on long-distance conversationson screen--all for free. They can accesseverything from 15th century commentaries onDante's Inferno top telephone directories.Students also may look for library books throughHOLLIS (Harvard's On-Line Library InformationSystem) or even find and run applications softwarefor their personal computers...
...like a ] towering inferno, to describe it mildly," Pasquarello said about the fire, which raged from 11 at night well into Saturday morning and drove 29 families into the street...