Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell continued on its late-season climb up the basketball ladder yesterday, while Eliot House, top grin on the Straus trophy totem pole, split its double slate, dropping a tight basketball game to Dunster and drubbing the Kirkland House skaters at the Arena...
Dunster's quintet handed the Bunnies their first drubbing of the day by pulling a close slugfest out of the fire in the last few minutes to win 34 to 30. The rough contest submerged Leverett one more rung to fifth place on the inter-House basketball ladder...
...stage, the beefy Wagnerian gods of Gotterdämmerung snorted and bellowed in their Valhalla. In the wings, a huge Siegfried, mounted on a ladder, sagged his 230 Ibs. down onto waiting shoulders to be borne on stage. "I'm getting too fat for this," grumbled hefty Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. A warrior-god charged into musty corners, looking for his sword; bored spear carriers fumbled through a prop basket full of hunting horns. Behind the backdrop a ragged army of stagehands lounged on the rocks of the Rhine (out of use for the moment), gulping coffee from paper cartons...
...Fesler, coach at Ohio State University, for the past month has been angling for the job, but at the athletic meeting two weeks ago Bingham rated him low on the ladder...
Hence a fire alarm was turned in, and Cambridge Hook and Ladder was on the way before the true state of affairs became known...