Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's almost-perennial strength at the bottom of the ladder that stopped the Cadets. Sophomore star Dinny Adams walloped Rick Lofton, 15-7, 15-12, 18-14 in the number eight match, and veteran John Francis turned back Steve Lomback in the ninth spot...
...ground to air, the film dissipates its fun at every turn, and the only chase to build up steam is a Chase named Barrie, who dances a wicked deadpan twist. Mad World reaches its nadir with an abortive climax that puts Spencer Tracy and ten comedians atop a fire ladder reeling several stories above the street, presumably on the assumption that eleven men suspended in mid-air will be eleven times funnier than Harold Lloyd used to be. Alas, the law of diminishing returns prevails...
Despite its manifest virtues it will take you only so far up the social ladder. For the top reaches of formality--diplomatic receptions and formal weddings held in the evening--you will need white tie and tails...
...drawn from the top 30 per cent of high school graduates, he gives no suggestions as to how this should be done, Sizer said. He claimed that the teaching profession today is nowhere near Conant's goal: too often teachers come not from the top of the academic ladder but from the bottom...
Though the Jews have scaled the social ladder faster than any other group, Glazer and Moynihan believe that they remain a separate community. Today's middle-and upper-class Jews tend to live together as much as the first Jewish immigrants who crowded into the Lower East Side. Many of the suburbs where Jews have moved have become almost solidly Jewish. This is not so much a matter of discrimination as of choice. Jews are building more synagogues and parochial schools than ever...