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  • S.I. Hayakawa, the linguist and former U.S. Senator from California, developed a model of what he called The Ladder of Abstraction to describe the level of? graininess? in conceptual knowledge.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2009

  • The best thing about Jacob's Ladder is its blink-and-you'll-miss-it bizarro moments - Wait - did that nurse have a bone protruding from her skull?!

    Nick Carr: The Complete New York City Horror Movie Marathon! Nick Carr 2010

  • The best thing about Jacob's Ladder is its blink-and-you'll-miss-it bizarro moments - Wait - did that nurse have a bone protruding from her skull?!

    Nick Carr: The Complete New York City Horror Movie Marathon! Nick Carr 2010

  • The best thing about Jacob's Ladder is its blink-and-you'll-miss-it bizarro moments - Wait - did that nurse have a bone protruding from her skull?!

    Nick Carr: The Complete New York City Horror Movie Marathon! Nick Carr 2010

  • The best thing about Jacob's Ladder is its blink-and-you'll-miss-it bizarro moments - Wait - did that nurse have a bone protruding from her skull?!

    Nick Carr: The Complete New York City Horror Movie Marathon! Nick Carr 2010

  • And here are two recent finishes - I have done the binding on both of these piecs now - the Jacob's Ladder is a 12 "block and the basket is about 22" square, I think.

    Rusty katelnorth 2008

  • "The Vertical Ladder" is a masterpiece, at once pure thought and pure action, though like most of the best short stories of the twentieth century, it is hopelessly out of print.

    Tradecraft 2005

  • "The Vertical Ladder" is a masterpiece, at once pure thought and pure action, though like most of the best short stories of the twentieth century, it is hopelessly out of print.

    Tradecraft 2005

  • The City firm has created a programme called Ladder to Law aimed at state-educated teenagers.

    The Lawyer - Latest News 2010

  • (Speaking) The Ladder is a song that I wrote while I was living on the beach in Santa Monica.

    Alejandro Escovedo: Healing Through Music 2006

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