Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chronicler put it, "Just as the rear detachments of Americans 50 years ago were forced ahead by the pressure of the Irish, or worsted forever, so the Italians and the Portuguese and the Jew are helping the Irish" by lifting him off the bottom of the social and economic ladder...
...alarm required the use of two engines and one ladder company...
...engine companies, a hook-and-ladder and more than a dozen members of the Cambridge Fire Department responded to the alarm at 6:45 p.m. The firefighters cleared the building of smoke with electric ventilators before allowing students and library staff to re-enter Widener...
...then altering them. The effect is somewhat like the Escher prints in which water flows uphill, straight columns bend, and roofs and ceiling invert on each other. Mirror Way at the Fogg is an elaborate experiment in such deception: pathways are blocked, stairs run up into floors, a ladder leads up to a slatted roof which then leads nowhere. In short, the structure is illogical--it feigns functionalism and yet refuses to function...
Sands is now safely back at Harvard and recently won the fall challenges to reach number one on the Harvard tennis ladder...