Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Francis Xavier Dercum, 74, president of the American Philosophical Society (oldest U. S. scientific association, founded in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin), discoverer of the painful fatty disease adiposis dolorosa, an eminent neurologist; of heart disease; in Philadelphia, as he was sitting in Franklin's "ladder-chair"* and about to open the Society's most ambitious program, a survey, by three dozen speakers, of the current world...
...everything that makes the fire engines clang is a fire. Sometimes it is a child's prank; sometimes it is a cat-a cat which, having climbed higher than it can bear, is meowing so piteously, so tediously, that the neighborhood sends for hook & ladder. Last week the Fire Department of White Plains, N. Y. revolted against cats, announced that in the future it would untree no cats whatsoever. Reasons: 1) too many firemen had been badly scratched; 2) apparatus off cat-chasing is not quickly available for fires...
...speeding across the prairie in a Pullman, his good friend President Hoover had promoted him to the No. 1 sub-Cabinet post, vacant since the death of Joseph Potter Cotton (TIME, March 23). Never before had a career diplomat climbed within one rung of the top of his professional ladder...
...medical profession is troubled with the same thing today that it was troubled with when I started my career. There are too many young men being knocked off the ladder of fame by old men coming down...
...Eliot House library will resemble the library in Dunster House in decorations, except that the shelves will be lower, and will not have to be reached by ladder...