Word: rung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana, young (28) Philip Willkie stepped onto the first rung of the political ladder by winning the Republican nomination to the state legislature from Rush and Henry counties (which have not gone Democratic since the Civil War). The magic of the Willkie name helped some; but the main reason for his nearly 5-to-1 victory over a candidate who had not been defeated in 35 years was his own tireless stumping: 7,800 miles by automobile; 16 hours a day of doorbell-ringing...
Altogether, it's a patched up Crimson nine that will try to climb up the Ivy ladder a rung or two. Ernie Maunine was hurt in the B.U. game and will not make the trip; nor will Armie Essayon, who is still ailing with a leg injury sustained in the Dartmouth game. Tom Sullivan will fill in at shortstop and Web Durant will catch...
More than 73 percent of College alumni have contributed a total of $3,423,000 since the Fund was organized in 1925, while 15,242 contributions were rung up last year for an all time-record. All money collected goes to the University for unrestricted...
Racking up their second victory of the campaign, the Bunny quintet climbed out of the league cellar. Kirkland, which sustained a 34 to 27 loss to Leverett, slid to the bottom rung of the court ladder. The teams were even at 16-all at the half-time intermission but the victors, paced by Bucky Thorn's ten points, moved ahead as the second period got under way and coasted...
...Protestantism, says Niebuhr, lies in its "inability to preserve the allegiance of the industrial workers of modern civilization. . . . Protestantism was the religion of the common man in the days of the American frontier. But as frontiersmen graduated into the middle class, the Protestant Church tended to move up one rung in the social ladder and to step down one rung from prophetic vitality to the complacency of the established order. Catholicism, on the other hand, has never lost sight of the social character of man's existence...