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...Cambridge Fire Department, responding to the 11:45 p.m. fire, drove two firetrucks into the House courtyard and raised a ladder to the upper story, but everyone was already evacuated...
...early twentieth century is infinitely more intriguing than analogous stories on this side of the Atlantic about Carnegie or Rockefeller. Wells was born in 1866 to a fanatically fundamentalist mother and a relatively impotent cricket-playing father perched ominously close to the bottom rung of a socially immobile ladder of Victorian society. Relying mostly on his raw intelligence, voracious reading habits, and an outstanding ability to cram, Wells was able to avoid the draper's life his mother had so carefully planned for him. 'Bertie' was the youngest child--spoiled, frail, and often "dreamy." Later in life, this same dreamy...
...down on himself. We initially see him attempting--and failing--to entertain an imagined dream audience, then lapsing further into a fantasy version of the real world in which he is forced into a shotgun marriage with Typically English Evie. While he is working his way up the executive ladder of success, we follow Littlechap on his business trips around the world as he enjoys the pleasures of Glorious Russian Anya, Typische Deutsche Ilse, and All-American Ginnie...
Suddenly a bell starts ringing. The boy Oton, his plastic-covered sombrero pulled down over his eyes as usual, has run up the ladder that leans against the church wall to the roof and is swinging the bell back and forth. A three-day-old child has died. It was unable to urinate and the doctor could not be summoned from across the fields, over the bumpy road, fast enough...
Junior Peter Blasier, number two on the team's ladder, handled Cornell's Tom Cleeland, 15-10, 15-6, 15-9. In the third spot, Archie Gwathmey put away Arun Khanna...