Word: sprinklers
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...have a cagey system to prevent any post-game pilfering of the goal posts. A concealed sprinkler system every ten yards can be turned on by some hidden hand under the stands...
...lunchtime crowd of 500 students who watched 11 Cambridge fire department vehicles and 30 firemen smother the small blaze. The fire was listed as of "undetermined origin" and damage was estimated at around $35. Before the situation was under control, heat from the conflagration and set off one automatic sprinkler in the basement below...
...things probably saved the Ti, her officers said: 1) a sailor in hangar-deck control, though he was knocked down, crawled through twisted steel and turned on the sprinkler system; 2) Dixie Kiefer ordered the ship's ballast shifted to make a 10-degree list to port - so the flaming gasoline ran off the hangar deck into the sea; then he changed course so that the wind blew the flames away from the ship...
...Sunflower Ordnance Plant building, to brush the walls with a fire-and water-resisting paint. The job was important; the building will house the manufacture of a highly explosive and highly secret new gunpowder, and the structure must be tight against fires and floodings (from the sprinkler system...
...holocaust in 1903. One Boston newspaper ran a two-word banner line: BUSBOY BLAMED. But the busboy had not put up the Cocoanut Grove's tinder-box decorations, nor was he responsible for the fact that Boston's laws do not require nightclubs to have fireproof fixtures, sprinkler systems or exit markers...