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...such droves as to necessitate the hanging out of the standing-room-only sign a New Lecture Hall. The repeated packing of Emerson D. last year necessitated this change of venue, which happily has proven all too confining for a Frost-bitten audience. The next rung of the ladder is Sanders Theatre which holds about three hundred more people than the New Lecture Hall and is Harvard's largest auditorium. A change to this new location should be made for the remaining three lectures so that Mr. Frost's inflated audience can be accomodated in comfort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "...THAT DOESN'T LOVE A WALL" | 3/17/1936 | See Source »

...salmon poachers, was christened Sergeant Finnegan. Prevented from getting any rest by Oregon City crowds, it humped itself onto a fisherman's house boat, peered in a window and got three charges of buckshot in the face and neck, blinding one eye. It finally climbed a fish ladder beside the falls, roistered on up the Willamette, switched to the Pudding River and then started cross-country through Farmer Alben Erickson's pasture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Originale | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...they call in Russia social meaning.' This is apparently accomplished by the introduction of acrobatics . . . and all for a purpose. I can suggest this purpose by describing the entrance of the lover. . . . Meierhold places the lady at the foot of a tin slide, the lover climbs up a ladder to the top of the slide, zooms down it, feet first, knocks the lady off onto the floor and shouts something that sounds like Russian for 'Whee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Report from Moscow | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...Norman Gillmor Long, 32, climbed to the cab on the girder, clung precariously to a ladder. Asked John McCoy: "Is my arm gone, Doc?" Dr. Long: "We'll see. Just take it easy." The doctor gave the crane operator a swig of whiskey, dulled him further with a hypodermic of morphine. Then operating with only his left hand through a hole cut in the side of the cab and working with his surgeon's lancet and a machinist's hacksaw, Dr. Long amputated John McCoy's right arm at the shoulder. Thereupon firemen hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mishaps in Massachusetts | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...quick to dress and down the ladder which leads to the spiral attic and herein I did meet the clock-winder, and after many How Do You Do's I down two hundred more steps and finally to the Memorial Hall which, as all now do know, used to be a dining hall but now is used for military science and drilling and, just as bad, methinks, for examinations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/8/1936 | See Source »

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