Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eaves of Central Asia's towering Hindu Kush Mountains lie the farthermost outposts of the British Raj's power in India, in the Northwest Frontier Province. There last week Britain slapped down with overwhelming force a perilous little rebellion, just north of Khyber Pass, in the land of the Upper Mohmands...
Possible amalgamation of the N.S.L. and S.L.I.D. will be discussed at the first joint meeting of the two organizations to be held Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in Adams House Upper Common Room...
...year is the time for experiment. It will be successful if a man has learned what he wants to do. Whether he wins posts and honors is comparatively unimportant if the longer view is kept in mind, for unquestionably the first year is the skirmishing ground for the three upper-class years...
Tomorrow morning the members of the upper classes will begin to arrive, and by Monday evening registration will be complete in all departments. In some of the Graduate Schools preliminary registration is also scheduled for today and tomorrow. The Graduate School of Business Administration opened yesterday with registration for all first year students...
...stars under long-term contracts. It did not load itself with theatre chains. It did not get itself heavily in debt. Such unusual wisdom in Hollywood was due chiefly to the frugal instincts of the Cohns. Brother Jack's early experiences filming Westerns in a woodsy spot on upper Manhattan Island convinced them that a cheap picture can be made to yield as high a boxoffice return as an expensive one. In 1920 they began their career on Hollywood's "Poverty Row'' with a series of shorts called The Hallroom Boys. Still pinching pennies, they followed...