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Word: ladders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slippery Ladder. Ecuador has long been envious of the wealth that oil has brought to other Latin American countries and it has hoped to reach prosperity itself on the slippery ladder of petroleum. Little (pop. 3,000,000) Ecuador is industrially undeveloped, politically backward (3% vote) and poor (per capita imports amounted to $4.33 in 1938, compared with oil-rich Venezuela's $30.63). It was glad to get Shell's $30,000 yearly for exploration rights in one-third of the nation's territory-in El Oriente jungle, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, a region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Dream's End? | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

These three men, consistently at the top of the Varsity ladder this season, left for Dartmouth with Barnaby yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foster, Stevens, Wightman at Dartmouth for Squash Tourney | 3/6/1947 | See Source »

...considerable rotundity before accepting major responsibilities is costing Canada millions of dollars in wasted dormant assets. American business wants Canadian youth, and deliberately creates attractive openings for them. Can we not attain comparable recognition here in our own country? . . . We are prepared to start at the bottom of the ladder, but won't you please give us a chance to climb up fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Gangway for Youth | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...time son Melvin went to Princeton, the travel bug had ruined him for normal life. Once, in the middle of a lecture, he took a desperate flying leap out of an open window, landed safely on a ladder that he had known was there, and clambered joyfully down-only to find Princeton President Woodrow Wilson awaiting him at the bottom. "Was the lecture very boring, Mr. Hall?" asked Wilson. "Very, sir." The president gave him a friendly smile, and walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Over the Hills & Far Away | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Harvard track is experiencing a post-war renaissance. Evolving from the carbon-copy war teams, the current Varsity machine now finds itself within striking distance of the Heptagonal ladder's top rung, which it occupied in the spring...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/20/1947 | See Source »

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