Word: fireproofed
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Beside these benevolent acts it has put fireproof walls all through Stoughton Hall and almost completed its sprinklerination of the sacred precincts. Nearly all the buildings in the Yard now have this valuable protection against fire, offering such unlimited opportunities to Freshman funsters...
...worthy projects, but how to apply for these funds, by the middle of the summer. With this information at hand the City Federation of Women's Clubs of San Antonio set about putting into motion all of the efforts necessary to procuring funds for the erection of a fireproof dormitory which is to provide lodging for 180 girls at the rates of $1 to $1.50 per week per girl. Now, at a time when many others are just deciding on projects-board meetings, committee meetings and architects meetings are over for the San Antonio Federation. Their application, plans, drawings...
Thus far no fireproof airplane has been built, no mail pouch which will prevent letters from being charred. Last week at Heston Airport near London, officials of the British Air Ministry saw what may lead to both objectives...
...Abilene parish he built ten churches, among them the first in the U. S. dedicated to St. Therese de Lisieux ("Little Flower"). In Amarillo diocese he built 35. In Santa Fe he now looks toward restoring old churches and shrines, installing their relics and treasures in proper fireproof vaults and cases. He will also apply himself to education (he has been president of Amarillo's Price Memorial College). An obstacle to him will be New Mexico's 13.3% illiteracy. Tall, plump and blond, Archbishop Gerken is a Rotarian, fond of quoting Aristotle and St. Francis (Santa...
...World's Fair was to open, Chicagoans trooped to the Art Institute, a mile up Michigan Avenue from the Fair grounds. There they saw the biggest, most comprehensive, most valuable loan exhibition ever assembled in the U. S. The fact that the show was set in the fireproof Institute instead of in a temporary building at the Fair proper enabled its sponsors to borrow $75,000,000 worth of paintings and sculpture. All the borrowed pictures hanging last week had come from U. S. museums (31) and private collections (more than 200). Yet to come was the one exception...