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...spiritual age among men which had no relation to the physical or chronological age of a man's body. Unlike the Buddhists, the Hindus attempted to order society on this principle through a rigid hierarchy of hereditary classes. A youngster of the Brahman class -- on top of the social ladder -- was therefore older, in spirit, than an aged man of a lower class. In theory, an intellectual and spiritual aristocracy ruled Hindu society...
Missing the services of Captain Craig Stapleton, Coach Jack Barnaby moved the bottom five men on the ladder up one position, and played John Whitbeck at nine. Barnaby still came up with five wins for the last six. But Amherst made those five squirm...
Brown is the immediate objective in the Crimson's climb up the Ivy ladder. Harvard plans to take over the Bruins' second place position of last year and shoot for topdog Cornell from there...
...over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soirées, teaching a bit of Russian or Arabic to his fellow inmates, discussing world affairs, or philosophizing on the art of espionage. On that rainy night, the soirée was canceled: sawed bars and a nylon ladder attested to the fact that Blake was associating more freely outside the walls of Wormwood Scrubs...
...gravity when blood is returning toward the heart. Normally, most of the blood travels through deep, internal veins, which are tightly enclosed in muscle and other tissues. The rest of the blood goes through thin-walled surface veins. Connecting the internal and external veins, like the rungs of a ladder, are horizontal communicating veins. All these veins are fitted by nature with internal cuplike valves, which open rhythmically to let a certain amount of blood flow up, then close to make sure that none flows back...