Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some new faces appeared at the top of the managerial ladder last week...
Muggy Mugasoth, who learned to play squash in Bombay, India is number two. Wynn particularly likes his good placement and drop shots. Next on the ladder stands Austin Flagg, an accurate placer who usually manages to hold the center court position...
Happy Landing. In Pittsburgh, airport maintenance worker Michael Fedor injured his hip when he fell off a ladder in the first-aid room...
Nobody knows better than the schoolteachers that they have been losing position on the economic ladder (as compared with other jobholders) even though their wages have recently been going up a little. Last week, in a careful survey of nationwide education trends, the New York Times proved it, with figures. In 1940, reported Education Editor Benjamin Fine, the average U.S. public schoolteacher got only $1,441. Scant though this was, it was nearly $150 above the norm for all wage and salary people. This year, the teacher averages $2,644-slightly better than 1947-48's figure...
...match won't be merely exercise for the varsity because the YMCA squad stands half way up the "A" league ladder while the Crimson shares a lower rung with the University Club...