Word: blazing
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...long ago a Boston patrol, made up of a physician, a druggist, a bookseller and an undertaker, spotted a fire in the coal docks, fought the blaze until the firemen arrived, probably saved the Boston waterfront from a major disaster...
Harvard Yard may soon blaze forth in all its peacetime glory, as University authorities began to comply with the recently announced Army relaxation of dimout regulations along the Eastern seaboard...
Disappointed fire fighters hustled to a blaze made by a missile that just missed Lehman Hall but caught the end of Wigglesworth. There were casualties there to be handled by the medical corps. Much neglected Robinson Hall got its share in the fun as Harvard firemen stormed through her portals to squelch an irate incendiary bomb...
Across an open space at the bustling Norfolk Naval Air Station moved a truck with six small trailers, each carrying four depth charges ready to be loaded into the waiting anti-submarine patrol planes. Suddenly a little blaze sprang up on one of the trailers. A station fire engine dashed up in a brave, hopeless effort to halt the fire. But before it could go into action the 24 cordite-loaded charges exploded like a salvo of blockbusters in a blinding flash and shattering concussion. The toll: 25 dead*; 249 injured. The blast and fire wrecked a hangar and eight...
...Mich. (two killed). At Altoona, Pa. two freight trains and a train of empty passenger cars were derailed (one killed). The 80th victim of the wreck of the P.R.R.'s swift Congressional (TIME, Sept. 13) died in a Philadelphia hospital. Then, same day, an eight-alarm, $250,000 blaze swept through Philadelphia's old Broad Street station. Six empty passenger cars were burned to charcoal and scrap iron...