Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tulsa's grand old man of oil and No. 1 citizen, W.G. Skelly (who had also applied for a TV station permit), she secured the tower of the National Bank of Tulsa for KOTV's transmitter. Wearing shorts, she clambered up 400 ft. on an outside ladder to inspect the tower installation. (During this ceremony, a startled workman dropped a wrench to the street below, killing a woman pedestrian from Sapulpa, Okla...
Last year Harvard ranked second in the intercollegiate squash league while Yale and Princeton, the only teams that defeated the Crimson, sandwiched the local team on the squash ladder. The team's success in recent years is due largely to the guiding hand of coach Barnaby, who has followed a two point program for building bigger and better squash teams...
Judge Davidson took the case under advisement as the United Secularists settled themselves down for a long climb up the legal ladder to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last-week scrappy Octogenarian McCarthy's white frame house in Clifton, N.J. was piled high with broadsides, and almost every evening embattled Secularists were coming in to help mail out a special appeal for funds. Said McCarthy happily: "Nobody gets paid for this, you understand. We're all charity workers here-and we're giving the Lord hell...
First step was to study the chemical structure of wool, which is made up of long, thin molecules linked together crosswise, roughly as the side pieces of a long ladder are linked by the rungs. The chemists found that if they broke the cross links chemically, the wool was much easier for the moths to digest. The links, apparently, were the moths' big problem. So the chemists reasoned that if the links were made stronger, the moths might not be able to digest the wool...
...Andrew J. Peters, both left City Hall in near-disgrace while Curley re-emerged as the city's saviour. Maurice J. Tobin, who beat him in 1937 and 1941, seemed to be the only one who could lick the Curley curse; and the moment Tobin went up the political ladder, Curley sneaked in again in 1945 when the anti-Curley faction thought he would be a pushover for anyone who ran against...