Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tricks of style and thought to keep him from waking to reality. And Mr. Farnol has given him few in this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early in the story, and from the moment Olivia Revell descends her ladder into the world of Jeremy it is obvious that she is his forever. Mystery does not befog this highway, though the author try to build mazes of confusion in the good old romance manner...
...soon as the teams get outside there will be a ladder tournament for the 28 new men which will decide the member skip of the second team. This team will be picked from six of the men who here been practicing at Longwood and the semi-finalists in the ladder tournament...
...natural for amassed millions to lead their inheritors from industrial to cultural pursuits. And the direction of most great industries eventually passes into the hands of ladder-climbersmen schooled by industry for its own purposes. Into such hands the International Harvester Co. passed in 1922, when Alexander Legge was elected its president. Mr. Legge, great in stature, sombre of brow, "began" with the company in 1891 at Omaha...
...summons, a low wail descended from a snowy tree. Like Androcles, the fire fighters hesitated. But the cry, like the unspecific lament of a hoot owl, did not betray whether it sprang from bird, beast, or fish. Yet it darted so pitifully down that the perplexed rescuers raised a ladder against the tree and sent one of their number hastily...
Haverford and Princeton are engaged in a nip and tuck race for the league leadership, while the University and Yale are both trying to force each other to accept the position at the bottom of the ladder...