Word: roped
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Stone, J.L., wire rope manufacturing...
...style of rope fire-escape has been placed in all rooms of Yard dormitories above the second floor, and all have been thoroughly tested. Some further precautions have also been taken in regard to the storage of inflammable rubbish...
Argosy--"At the End of His Rope," by W. A. Foster...
...nobody seems to appreciate that the College authorities here show just as much criminal negil- gence. In each room on the upper stories of the Yard buildings--this is true at least of Matthews, I am not certain as to the others--there is one and only one rope fire escape, by which one person could probably descend in safety. It is so arranged that it cannot be used a second time without pulling the entire length of the rope through a device which grips it tightly (preventing the descent from being too rapid). This would take at least...
...practice hockey game, which was to have been played between the University hockey team and Arlington High School, yesterday afternoon, was prevented by rain. The squad was, however, given exercise in running, rope-skipping, and handball. If there is ice on the Holmes Field rink this afternoon, the team will play a practice game of two twenty-minute halves with Cambridge Latin School, at 4 o'clock. The line-up of the University team will be as follows: Kernan, r.e.; Souther, r.c.; Newhall, l.c.; Wilder, l.e.; Clothier, c.p.; Carr...