Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...families well. She stops to chat at their houses, is often invited to their parties or to stay overnight. Brought up in Iowa City, where she graduated from high school, she studied at Cedar Falls State Teachers College (Iowa) for a year, then began to teach. She does not smoke or drink. Weekends she has dates with a young Iowa City storekeeper. Because she likes to be independent she does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession by reading Midland Teacher, organ of the State Teachers' Association. She also likes...
Hero of the day was Stanley O. Beren '41, who braved flame and smoke to reach an elderly lady who had fallen on the stairs in an effort to escape from the inferno and was nearly overcome by the fumes, and carried her to the comparative safety of the waiting fire trucks...
Yale and Princeton may have been at swords' points last Saturday in the Bowl, but during the pat week they have been brothers in misfortune. The small turnout for the game-about 32,000-has sent up in smoke not only most of the athletic associations profits but even a measure of the prestige their game has always had. Harvard extends its deepest sympathy-rather absent minded sympathy because here the situation is considerably different. With 50,000 tickets already sold, and the usual activities around the Square promising a sell-out by Saturday, the H.A.A. doesn't have...
...hall entrance with two others, but we could not make headway against the stream of persons pouring out. Before us, filling the hall, was a yellow-grey wall of dust and smoke. . . . Several wounded faltered through the door. I broke through and . . . the way into the hall was now free. I had to adjust my eyes to the dimness. Then I saw what had happened...
Passers-by told Sheehan that they saw smoke coming out of an upstairs window in the house, and while he ran upstairs to investigate they turned in the alarm at the corner...