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...raise a monument to himself, the artist can concentrate on giving pleasure to young people. Children have much more imagination than we assume. It's a good idea to paint when school is open and the place is teeming with kids. If the children start climbing the ladder to offer advice and criticism, you know you're on the right track...
...Frank O. Prior, 59, was named president of Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), replacing Alonzo W. Peake, 64, who will retire May 3 after 34 years with the company, ten as president. (Robert E. Wilson remains board chairman.) In his climb up the ladder, Prior often moved on to the rung vacated by Peake. A Stanford engineering graduate (1919), Prior started work as an oilfield laborer for Midwest Refining, where Peake was an oilfield superintendent. Shortly after, Standard bought Midwest, and as Peake moved up, Prior followed. In 1928, Peake was made president of another Standard subsidiary, Dixie Oil, and when...
...Tutorships. The posts could be awarded to non-tenure men on the basis of promise and be regarded as an honor and expression of confidence of the part of the Department and the University. Nonetheless, non-permanent members of the faculty, eager to move up the academic ladder, often would find their time better spent in intensive academic work, than in the heavy administrative tasks...
...often has no telephone or typewriter. Originally, magistrates were recruited from men of substance anxious to perform civic duty. Today, the underpaid magistrature has become the refuge of law graduates who fear failure as lawyers, and the juge d'instruction is the lowest rung on the judicial ladder. In the case of Marie Besnard, accused poisoner of 13 relatives and friends, the juge d'instruction was a 26-year-old, newly promoted from clerk, who never visited the scene of the crime, sent out to the local grocery for canning jars to hold the viscera...
...injured workman had just stepped from a ladder when his foot slipped on the icy bark. Witnesses said that he landed on his feet...