Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advocating a tournament for Freshmen in the spring, the magazine reports an assault on the ladder boards in the Union by a "certain gay young gentleman on the evening of the Freshman dance...
...with money donated by the late Tsar Nicholas II, a brick & sandstone Cathedral of St. Nicholas, archiepiscopal seat of the Russian Orthodox Church on the North American continent. Recently, many a passerby in the street gazed upward at the Cathedral's steeply-pitched roof. There, perched on a ladder, a stocky young man wielded tar buckets, rolls of tar paper. He was Very Rev. Michael Maslov, dean of the Cathedral. For months, rain had been leaking through the roof, damaging the murals and icons within. Prelates of the Cathedral had launched a campaign for $25,000 to refurbish...
Competition for the newly organized Freshman Chess Ladder begins this week. 40 men have signed up, and as the ladder will continue throughout the year, it is expected that more names will be added later...
Early this week, though steel production dwindled to 52.1%, U. S. Steel perversely led the market back up the ladder, $6.13 up to close at $58.63. Rails were full of vigor, but Chrysler was the most spectacular stock of all, jumping $9.50 to $69.75. Highlight of the 2,000,000-share trading was a 51-minute "reverse air-pocket" during which a would-be buyer of 5,000 shares of Chrysler could find no offering...
...start of this week the market gave itself a breathing spell, the list climbed a few points back up the ladder. Meanwhile from a prime U.S. capitalist came a remark reminiscent of Andrew Mellon's famed quip early in 1929 that "gentlemen prefer bonds." Said Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp.: "I think that the present situation can be made very serious unless people stock, look and listen...