Word: janitored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could shout "Let it burn," since this second visit of the year by the local fire brigade came well before 9 o'clock. A short circuit in a fuse box had caused only a small blaze, but the smoke, which was heavy enough to fill the basement, prompted a janitor to call out the fire fighters...
Neither did they know that each Saturday after the wow session the Major palmed a five-dollar bill off on the janitor for his effort: staying each evening until all the pigeons left the church and then mixing up all the little boxes of buttons back into the big barrels...
Eighteen years of duty with the Navy gave Vic experience for his new job. Including his time with the reserve he has been in the service 30 years. After coming to Harvard in 1926, he was the first janitor of newly-built Straus Hall until he moved to Matthews...
Matthews Hall will lose its most distinctive figure tomorrow when Victor Ehler trades in his janitor's duties to take over the position of Chief Gunner's Mate in the Navy. Vic will leave for the Newport, R. I. training station to rejoin the Navy after almost 17 years at Harvard...
Since 1934 Vic has been janitor and chief watcher over Matthews, and every former inhabitant remembers his strident call to the telephone, and his remarkable knack for knowing all the news there is to know around the Yard...