I had a design degree, fire in my belly, and it was my time to revolutionize design and do as Saul Bass and Milton Glaser had done.
A team of ten men and one woman from around the world worked with sand and soda ash, rendered molten by twenty-four-hundred-degree fires to create bits and pieces of the dancer.
At the place where the four doomed firefighters and some of the 17 other members of their crew made a last stand against the rapidly spreading blaze by curling up inside their individual pup-tent-size shelters, the temperature must have been 1,000 degrees, fire forensic specialists estimated.
But these systems work better on pavement than off, since the two control units work by grabbing the brakes on wheels that slip, and this can put hellish wear on the brakes if you decide to, say, climb a mile-long, 30-degree fire road.
You can even go so far as to earn a degree in fire science or fire protection engineering.
While it may be safer than trying to run from the fire on foot, the degree of fire intensity will impact your survival chances--if it is a grass fire, you might be fine but if it is inferno-like, your chances of survival are slim.
We concluded that acid and alkaline phosphatase activities can efficiently represent the degree of fire impact on soil even one year after fire.
Bill and Hillary Clinton come under a degree of fire, as much of the mass incarceration initiated by Reagan grew during the 1990s.
To some degree, the fire sales are a reflection of growing expertise within some banks, which had little familiarity with owning and selling property before.
To a remarkable degree the fire [that destroyed the two-year-old concert hall in 1969] has proved a blessing in disguise.
Recently the Suffolk County academy began offering basic firefighting courses for college credit applicable toward a bachelor's degree in fire science technology or an associate's degree in applied sciences through SUNY Empire State College.
