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...took a long time to investigate the call. The police chopped away the Collyers' bolted front door, and were confronted by a solid mass of newspapers, cartons, old iron, broken furniture. Finally a patrolman went up a ladder, opened a shutter, swept his flashlight into a cavelike burrow. Homer was sitting on the floor. He was naked except for a thin and tattered bathrobe, his long white hair hung down to his shoulders, and his hand rested near a shriveled apple. He had been dead for some hours...
...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...
These three men, consistently at the top of the Varsity ladder this season, left for Dartmouth with Barnaby yesterday...
...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...
...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...