Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clouds mounted to the upper edge of the sun, a fan of golden cables swung down over them into the far hills that rolled about this New Hampshire valley like the broken rim of a cup. The Vagabond, brushing wearily through the weeds of the fiat fields paused to wipe the perspiration from his warm face. His shabby clothes, his eyes rather puffed and watery, betokened the dusty plodding of a long journey. And indeed he had been trudging since dawn when he left Dunster sitting beside the river, it seemed, like a contented crimson...
...Communistic graduate of Harvard now shares the distinction with George Washington and the famous members of the Adams family, of having his picture hung on the walls of Adams House. Yesterday workmen placed a portrait of John Reed '10 on the wall of the stairway to the Upper Common Room. The portrait was painted by Robert Hallowell '10, a classmate of Reed, and was donated by a committee headed by Corliss Lamont '24. Reed, after leaving college in 1910 became a war correspondent and later went to Russia, where he took part in the revolution. He is the author...
...Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers...
...nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved as Dr. Sheehan's hands pulled her scalp away from the underlying muscles. The hands pushed a blunt pair of scissors under the skin of the girl's cheek, from the upper incision to the hole at her lips. There was very little bleeding...
Meeting last night in the Upper Common Room of the Union, the new-born Harvard Peace Society elected officers for the year 1935-36 and ratified a constitution. The officers, all Freshmen, are Robert S. Brainerd, president; John M. Vanderlip, Vice-president; Edward Ladd, secretary; A. Jerome Himelhech, treasurer; Robert P. Bentley, Jr., librarian. John J. Fox and Robert E. Wernick were elected councilmen...