Word: ladders
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...summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent one of their number hastily...
Haverford and Princeton are engaged in a nip and tuck race for the league leadership, while the University and Yale are both trying to force each other to accept the position at the bottom of the ladder...
Once again a Harvard graduate has reached the top of Boston's political ladder. Malcolm Edwin Nichols '99, newly elected Mayor of the city, brings the University to the fore once more in City Hall, where A. J. Peters '95 was Mayor only a few years...
Ecclesiastical preferment had nothing to do with the Fosdick ascendency. He was a Baptist ? and the Baptist Church contains no ecclesiastical ladder. The simple facts are that from 1904 to 1915, Fosdick remained in Montclair. He began to give a few lectures at Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, and finally removed, in 1915, bag and baggage to the Seminary to become Professor of Practical Theology...
...wrenching, a crunching, a howling of steel, and "Everyone beat it" cried one of the 15. Colonel Hall, as he sprang to the ladder, scrambled up. Fourteen men were left...