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Systematic study of rings, so that old wood can be dated by its growth patterns, was begun in 1904 by Astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass of the University of Arizona, who was interested in solar activity. Douglass became able to look at a pine ladder or rafter from a prehistoric Indian pueblo, date it exactly as far back as 11 A.D. Sequoia wood from the High Sierra can now be dated back to 1305 B.C. Since the weather, and therefore tree growth, varies from place to place, master tree-ring charts must be worked out for different districts...
...there are thousands of us who have worked like hell since '31 and '32 trying to lick a depression, get experience, get established, to climb the ladder . . . yet we gladly chuck it all to serve our country. Now, some of the boys are declaring strikes over petty arguments or small wage increases and in so doing bottleneck industry which makes possible a well-equipped Army...
Anyway, we worked hard as hell to keep our jobs . . . harder still to climb the ladder. Today a lot of us have advanced and are getting along pretty well, considering everything. A lot of us, like myself, are making between $2,000 and $4,000 a year...
Assuming their place on the bottom rung of the Big Three ladder, the grapplers collapsed before a strong Eli delegation, 19 to 11, at New Haven Saturday afternoon. Simultaneously, the Freshmen were swamped by their undefeated Blue rivals...
...unable to tackle his squash as soon as the rest of the squad. He made a series of speeches in the recent presidential campaign and could not find time to work his way up into the first five until the Williams match. Marvin's rise up the ladder was not an easy one because there was a collection of prize Sophomores and much improved upperclassmen barring the way. Gene Nickerson and Sonny Lyell, a pair of Seniors, had come from nowhere to vie with Galen Felt for number one ranking. Nickerson's rise was of the story book variety. Infantile...