Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longtime flea on the British lion is the Upper Mohmand tribe, a wild, haughty, hairy group of Pathans who periodically attack the Lower Mohmands, pets of the British Government, and raise hob generally in the Northwest. Time after time the British have marched into Upper Mohmand Land to protect their pets. Blandly incorrigible, the Upper Mohmands went on kidnapping and selling the women of nearby Swat, raiding the great, heavily-guarded caravan kafilas that wind under the British railway bridges through the Khyber Pass. Lately the British have busily pushed a road for the first time into Upper Mohmand land...
...biggest of all the expeditions against the Upper Mohmands poured out of Peshawar, farthest north of the hill posts. Against the few hundred rifles of the Haji's son. Britain moved into action the white-turbaned Pathans and Sikhs of the Peshawar and Nowshera Brigades, the tough, kilted Scots of the Highland Light Infantry, to a total of 15.000 men. as well as planes, mountain artillery, light tanks. Commanding was a hardened Scot of a professional British Army family. Brig.-General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, advised by Acting Chief of Staff Major-General Eric de Burgh and Director of Military...
EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES ? Mabel Dodge Luhan?Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). Two years ago Mabel Dodge Luhan published the first volume of extracts from her Intimate Memories, dealing candidly with a girlhood in the upper circle of Buffalo and with first awakening adventures abroad. That book, like European Experiences, was drawn from a vast manuscript that has acquired a legendary importance: the complete story of Mabel Dodge Luhan's life and of the people she has known, not to be published in its entirety until all those who appear in it are dead. European Experiences is a selection of what...
Over 150 men the majority of whom ranked first in their schools and nearly all of whom stood in the upper tenth of their classes, competed for the Prize Fellowships awarded this year to Freshmen...
Five hundred and eighty-eight Freshmen stood in the upper quarter of their preparatory school classes; 121 ranked first or second in their school graduating classes, and slightly more than 17 per cent of the entering Freshmen were among the first five in Scholarship in their school classes...