Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wiggins Trade School stepped into the entrance hall, bugged his eyes. Overnight the two upper corners of the panel had been painted in. On the right, flames were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched...
...orderly processes of Nature, and hence he is not much given to astonishment. He sees marvels every day, and though they may fail to surprise him they may nonetheless scare him almost out of his wits. He is dismayed when a child is born with teeth, or cuts its upper teeth first, and usually does away with it. The birth of twins is an omen of disaster. If a banana tree sprouts fruit not at the end of the stalk but near the middle, the plant is promptly cut down and the owner is considered in peril of death...
Robert's tuition and board fee of $450 per year is a sum which only fairly rich Turks can afford. Hence the college draws its Turkish clientele largely from the prosperous middleclass, which wants its sons trained for business or engineering. The Turkish upper crust may send its daughters to Istanbul Woman's College for culture but in general it sends its sons to Istanbul's ancient native university, Galata Serai. Bulgarians, on the other hand, who have drawn a Premier, two front-rank diplomats and many another leader from the college's alumni, regard Robert...
Junior Varsity--10.30 o'clock. Upstream (upper 2 miles...
Fossils taken by the expedition from the sides of the Georges Bank valleys which extend more than a mile below sea level on the edge of the continental shelf, indicate that the last major crustal movement of the North Atlantic coast of America occurred since the Upper Cretaceous period, 105,000,000 years ago, and possibly since the Miocene age, 30,000,000 years...