Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girls per Rope...
Charlotte Child '51, house fire captain, demanded external fire escapes instead of window steps and fire ropes. "Fire ropes just will not do in an emergency," she said. "We have no chance to hold fire drills, and only one rope is furnished per room...
...Steps are just high enough so that the girls may sit on the ledge and swing themselves over and down the fire rope." Blamire added that without these steps, windows would be too far from the floor to permit the girls to get out safely...
First Things. At Narvik, Norway, when shipmates threw him a line after he fell overboard, Odd Evensen tied the rope to his brandy bottle, yelled: "Save this first...
George Polk's body was found floating in Salonika Bay on May 16. The corpse was bound with 30 feet of rope and had a bullet wound in the base of the skull. While serving as a Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent in Greece, Polk had been an outspoken critic of the Greek Royalist government...