Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mike, prominent Yard cop. "Sure Why not have the game if the boys want some fun? As for the score, I predict a 36 to 34 result-with the Prince-board on top. Behind the hurling of Chappie Rose the Nassau-nine should have no difficulty...
...onetime British premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Ishbel, (see p. 11).¶ On the presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads alike to exercise greater caution at grade crossings...
Last week a not altogether dignified chorus of disappointment and disapproval rose from within the walls of English universities. London University, which enrolls 3,000 students in the world's most imposing school of economics, had needed a man for its .top economics ; chair. The, school's director and governors had 'called from the U.S. able Economist Allyn Abbott Young of Harvard. While Britons grumbled and groused, Director Sir William Beveridge anything but mollified public opinion by admitting frankly that Britain had no suitable candidate. Sir Josiah Stamp, one of the governors, stoutly maintained...
...American Medical Association: He has 34 beds that are "oblong boxes, made of one-inch dressed boards; 6½ ft. long, 30 in. wide and 18 in. deep, standing on legs twelve inches high and painted white. They are filled with fresh sawdust within six inches of the top. From such a trough, the patient cannot tumble out; an attendant can scoop out any sawdust . . . patients do not suffer any inconvenience whatever...
...twelve miles. How greatly the River has swollen may be judged from the fact that whereas ordinarily the shore of the River is about four and a half miles from the Levee, the water had risen to such an extent that it was within four feet of the top of the Levee. This means that all over this wide space of ground the water was from ten to twenty feet deep over around which is ordinarily used for grazing purposes. North and South this situation exists for several hundred miles...