Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe they have lately had notable success with the Psalms. And last week Miss St. Denis had ready a dance-pageant which she and a "rhythmic choir" were to present this week at the Riverside ("Rockefeller") Church of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, later at the Rutgers Presbyterian Church on upper Broadway. Miss St. Denis plans further appearances in Manhattan churches and a new pageant next Easter. A sincere believer in what she is doing, she writes thus of her religio-artistic feelings: "The dance is the sport of God, spontaneous, harmonious, continuous. By renunciation, discipline, and unfoldment we become aware...
Lurking in the upper right corner of the constellation Hercules last month was a nameless 14th-magnitude star far below the limit of naked-eye visibility. Fortnight ago a British amateur saw it in a violent eruption which, because of the star's distance, must have occurred about 1,500 years ago. It was throwing off two shells of tremendously hot gas at 1,000,000 m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars...
...penny arcades of upper Broadway, in the gaudy Sixth Avenue Sportland of Schork & Schaffer, in all the dark and smoky dens where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little...
...Sophomore year he was secretary-treasurer of his class, an office since abolished with other upper-class posts, and during his Freshman year he was captain of the cross country team. His best showing on the track team has been made in the two-mile run where he has scored notable success...
Certain facts stand out clearly. The Japanese were prepared for a drastic reduction in naval armaments, on the basis of a common upper level of tonnage. This was a plan compatible with the idea of national security and prestige. This plan the United States flatly rejected...