Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...greatest use in case of fire, but would be exceedingly convenient at other times. Of course, as the dormitories are now built, this would be impossible, but it is undoubtedly the way in which the buildings should have been constructed. There should also be a permanent iron ladder at the window of each entry, reaching from the roof to the ground...
...order to console those who live in nightly dread of awaking to find their way to terra firma cut off by the flames, we print the following: "A fire ladder has been purchased. Two ladders long enough to reach the highest windows in the College dormitories are now kept in the Yard to serve as fire-escapes in case of need. At night a watch is kept about the buildings, with a special view to the early discovery of fire...
...company who looked forward with pleasure to the Editor's Easy Chair, remarking that the profession is one which offers splendid rewards, but at the same time the best opportunities for work, and that one must begin, as the old saying is, "at the bottom of the ladder," and prove his right to a high position before he can claim...
...ladder in the cleft...
...style of poetry have been so well and so often satirized that one can hardly speak of them without trespassing upon ground already occupied; but, to distinguish them beyond a doubt, it may be said that, of this school, William Morris, perhaps, stands upon the highest round of the ladder of respectability, and Walt Whitman upon the lowest...