Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consequently it has adopted all the good features of the Harvard plan. It boosts a man up the ladder at an early enough age so that he still has some elements of unconventionality in his make-up. Likewise it frees a man young enough to enable him to get a good job elsewhere...
These men had hardly been placed with the University on the first rung of the faculty ladder when the depression hit. At that time, every university administrator was reluctant to do anything which would indicate that because of hard times young men should be displaced. The problem of meeting the future was, therefore, postponed...
...Eric's successor will be 56-year-old Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, who served as Minister to Paris from 1929 to 1935, has since been Minister to Yugoslavia. It is unusual for a British Ambassador to France (with Paris and Washington at the top of the British Ambassadorial ladder) not to have served in more than one Legation and at least one other Embassy previously, but Sir Ronald is brilliant, literary, shrewd, tactful, firm, sardonic, and so intent on the matter before him that even his golf has something of the nature of a political démarche...
With that lengthy ladder and bucket of paint...
...year ahead of Lupien on the minor league ladder leading to Boston is one Paul Campbell, plucked off the North Carolina campus. Campbell spent last year in Louisville and did a corking job at first base. Then, of course, there is always a fellow named Foxx on hand when the Back Bay Bombers trek south for the opening practices...