Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curt, frost-tipped words he warned the members of the upper chamber that if he was to be criticized for their acts and customs in the future, he intended to have more to say about them...
With the executive genius for which RKO wanted to pay him $30,000 a year if he would leave the Service, General MacArthur grouped the nine corps areas into four army areas: (1) North Atlantic States, (2) Upper Mississippi Basin, (3) Southern & Southwestern States, (4) Western. & Northwestern States. In emergency, these four Field Armies would probably be placed in command of the Army's ranking generals. Each corps commander would still function within his own "zone of the interior," attending to matters of mobilization, supply, training and transport on his own familiar ground, while his Army commander took over...
...heads of boys and girls grow at the same rate from the nose up. But "it is characteristic of anthropoids and man that bodily growth in the female practically ceases at puberty, whereas, in the male, it continues for several years." Therefore the upper lips and jaws of boys have time to lengthen, while girls more often remain "baby faced...
Recently returned from turbulent Cuba, an American seaman who was a witness of the recent outbreaks there, has been engaged by the N. S. L. to speak tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room on the condition of Cubs...
While it will be difficult to improve upon the solution worked out by the administrative board or to disagree that upper classmen must live up to the spirit of the law in not cutting too many classes, Mr. Hanford should have stated more simply and frankly the reasons that obviously lay behind his actions. Any one who has had to file so simple a document as a questionnaire or registration card realizes that a fairly large number of men make mistakes even on that. Still greater, then, is the chance of a goodly number of undergraduates misreading so long...