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Somebody threw an unknown object from DeWolfe St. at Quincy House last night, breaking a large third-floor common room window and slightly injuring one student resident...
...game like this, records and rankings go out the window," Caples added. "The motivation is there. It's a great position to be in. We can determine our own fate. As long as we stick to our game plan, play hard and don't let up for 70 minutes, I am very confident that we will do well...
...Move out of the way. Damn fool!" Malone hollers out the window. "Don't you see I'm moving a house...
Even for those born long after San Francisco's great 1906 earthquake and fire, it had become a habit to recall the warm, breezy conditions during that cataclysm. Looking out a window from her home in suburban Sunnyvale, Neta Lott remarked to her husband Byron that the Indian-summer evening of Oct. 17 seemed like "darned good earthquake weather." Moments later, the shaking and rolling began. Byron, an electrical engineer, fell to the floor. Neta tried to get up but remained pinned to her chair until she rolled onto the floor. "I sat under the desk and thought I would...
...apartment. Her three-story building, with 18 apartments, cracked, splintered and toppled forward. "I could hear two women trapped in the apartment below me screaming, then I heard a voice yelling, 'Are you okay?' " the stockbroker's assistant recalled. Shortly after a neighbor pulled her out of a smashed window into air filled with gas fumes, she heard three deafening explosions. Then she saw a "horrible, huge wall of flame." Before the long night was over, most of an adjacent block containing ten buildings was incinerated by gas-fed flames that shot 50 ft. into...