Word: ladders
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...financially blessed citizens for their expensive art objects. Now we not only feel their equals, but, if my civil suit for the return of two old jackets I gave to the Salvation Army is successful, I sincerely feel that we can take one giant leap up the local social ladder to a position of unchallenged eminence...
...ponderous, unnamed 280-mm. gun (17 miles), carried by a two-cab hook-and-ladder-style truck, which lofts a 605-Ib. shell with high accuracy. A stopgap weapon that first appeared in 1953, it is so cumbersome that it is used for little else than military parades...
Among the most conspicuous improvements is the play at the bottom of the singles ladder. Steele, at number four, Walter, and Walker give Harvard a more consistent lower threesome than last year...
...grandfather and great-uncle were Star editors, and Grandfather Frank Noyes was president from 1909 to 1948. After starting out rewriting handouts and covering the police beat, he became a Star war correspondent in Italy and Southern France during World War II. Back home, he began climbing the executive ladder. For the last six years he served as executive editor...
...rest of the group falls somewhere in between the two extremes of national and local interest. This is natural for the man who has slowly worked his way up the ladder in his state, and finally made the jump to federal office. Then too, they are not really primarily concerned with such divisions of human problems. As politicians, they are interested in, and get their rewards from people. As Thomas McIntyre said, "You shake the housewife's hand and she likes...