Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bidder-Upper Kent...
...University authorities of the oldest college in America (1636) makes evident for the first time the cleft between the post-war student youth and the old-fashioned Wilsonian group of professors. An incident such as this might well be the first move in an intellectual fermentation within the academic upper classes of conservative New England...
...Every Pullman conductor now tries to sell a section for the price of a lower berth plus one-half the price of the unused upper...
...higher above the earth than any balloon has ever ascended lies a series of curved shells of electrified air which scientists call the ionosphere. From this ionized region of upper space radio waves carom and curl around the earth. For two years Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has had under way a program of ionosphere research mustering a platoon of scientists and ranging from the tropics to the far North. At the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, Dr. Edward Olson Hulburt kept track of the work, conferred with the workers. Last week in the Physical Review...
Tuition fees are above the Manhattan sisterhood's average. Upped $100 in 1928 and another $100 in 1930, they now run from $400 for the preliminary school to $800 for the six upper classes. But of this year's 412 students, 52 are on scholarships, against nine...