Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Baby Lindbergh was snatched from his crib, to May 12, 1932, when his body was found. Old, too, was the story of Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx, of his possession of $13,750 worth of the ransom money, of the attempt to identify him with the ladder found on the Lindbergh premises the night of the crime. For months newspapers had trumpeted the fact that lumber in the ladder came from a Bronx lumber yard where Hauptmann had once worked...
...failure to recognize tutoring as a valuable and necessary function of the College deserves mention. It has to do with current ideas and attitudes. The younger members of the Faculty, who in all likelihood were full-time tutors in their early career, tend as they move up the academic ladder to show a marked preference for lecturing over tutoring. It is commonly believed that he who gives a course has won a badge of distinction. The traditional idea often persists that a professor is one who lectures, carries on research, and writes books; if he also takes...
Everyone enjoyed a wonderful time as the chief or one of his important deputies was sent on the perilous trip up a ten foot ladder in order to extinguish a smoldering rag on top of an awning at the Charles Restaurant. His was the delicate task of chopping out a part of the framework of the window without marring the much-dirtied glass two and a half inches below. He was assisted by kindly Fate and the crowd was able to return to their beds knowing that the city fathers were adequately protecting their lives and property...
After 28 years in the museum's storehouses and preparation rooms, the skeleton was hung from the ceiling by seven strands of airplane cable. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews had to mount a ladder to point out the close-packed whalebone strainer (see cut). Now famed for spectacular expeditions in the Gobi and elsewhere, bald Dr. Andrews recalled that his 1907 expedition to Long Island to reclaim the whale's bones was his first & worst...
...Thousands of people bought lumber from the Bronx lumber yard. Thousands more could buy such nails as were found in the ladder...