Word: warden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackout is serious business, however. Any one willfully disregarding the orders of a warden is liable to immediate expulsion, and the severity of that penalty is well commensurate with the dangers arising from thoughtlessness during an enemy air attack. A repetition of the fireworks display put on by pranksters at the Business School during the recent Boston tryout, or of the shouting of Rhineheart in the Yard last Tuesday night, will not be tolerated by the University. A lighted match is visible from far above 10,000 feet; a window through which light escapes is a beacon to hostile planes...
Meanwhile, emphasizing the seriousness of tomorow's blackout, Aldrich Durant, chief warden of the Harvard District, issued a statement yesterday calling for the cooperation of every single individual...
...Warden's Duties...
During the blackout the air raid warden's duties shall be twofold: (1) To prevent panic, (2) to see that all lights are extinguished as promptly as possible. Police shall make plans to clear all streets during blackout...
...official public alarm shall be the sounding of sirens, and factory whistles designated by the Chief Air Warden, or the extinguishing of street lights, which ever occurs first. At 10.30 P. M., the official "all-out" will be sounded on sirens and factory whistles and street lights will be relighted and all traffic and business will resume its normal procedure...