Word: ladder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...obtainable, and are, I believe, entirely satisfactory. They are inspected monthly and tested annually. For immediate use, standard chemical fire extinguishers are placed in all porters' rooms, and all entries. These are inspected monthly, and discharged and recharged annually, Diagrams giving the location and description of the hydrants, hose, ladders, and other apparatus, are posted in all entries. At the Brattle Square Station of the Cambridge Fire Department, are located a fire engine, hose wagon, and hook and ladder truck. The Department may be called by telephone at any one of the several telephone stations in each of the dormitories...
...competition of the work-a-day world? Perchance to him the graduate of the down-town commercial school has seemed better fitted for the struggle. Again, who has not heard the engineer graduate of some well-known technical school, successful and perhaps well up the ladder in his particular field of mechanics -- electricity, automobiles, or what not -- regret that he did not take four years for a college education when he still had the chance? His very success in his technical field rankles in his heart, for he sees the highest rung of the ladder on which he has started...
...business to wish to start his work immediately on graduation. Two years spent in the Business School may seem to put him two years behind the man who begins work immediately, especially, since it does not necessarily relieve him of the drudgery of "starting at the foot of the ladder." The value of the School lies in its power to show a man the real meaning and the real opportunities of a business, so that with equal ability he should be able to accomplish more and be of greater value than his less well-trained classmate...
...after life in the world at large,--thus clinching the argument. Equally interesting are the life records made by them as Mr. Thayer marshals his facts. Most of the first scholars have been not ministers but lawyers by profession, but often the lawyers have used the law as a ladder to public office. In the list are five United States Senators, ten Representatives, two ministers to Great Britain, three members of the Cabinet, three for- eign ministers, one members of the Continental Congress and also of the Constitutional Convention, one Governor of Massachusetts, two Presidents and one Acting President...
...play is, and the higher ability required to coach it. But now, above this coaching, there is yet something higher. There is the policy, or method, or system, which shall be taught. This is what I call the coaching of the coachers. It is the highest round of the ladder. It concerns the grand tactics of the game. It demands the insight to analyze the results of an entire season of intercollegiate football, and draw the correct lessons from it for the equipment of your next year's team. It requires the capacity to plan an offense that shall...