Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musty corner of a Long Beach, Calif, garage last week was fought another newsworthy battle when a deadly black-widow spider met a venomous scorpion three times her size and weight. Taking the upper hand at the start, the spider slowly spun sticky strands about the scorpion's forelegs, pinioned one of its knifelike pincers. By the second day odds among the scores of spectators who thronged the garage were 4-to-1 on the spider, with few takers. On the third day the spider began to enmesh the scorpion's stinger in her web, boosted betting odds...
...hydroelectric and navigation dam at Bonneville on the Columbia River 40 miles above Portland; the $63,000,000 hydro-electric Grand Coulee Dam where the Columbia flows through the barren hills of central Washington; the $62,000,000 flood control dam at Fort Peck in Montana on the upper Missouri; the $65,000,000 dam at Devils Lake in North Dakota. By word and deed the President was determined to make the nation "dam-minded...
...President, still smiling strongly, made his last appearance next morning on the upper balcony of Iolani Palace where, to a crowd below and all Hawaii by radio. he delivered a seven minute address. Shrewdly he titillated Hawaiians by espousing their favorite claim: "Your Administration in Washington will not forget that you are in very truth an integral part of the nation.'' But nothing did he say of increasing the islands' sugar quota or continuing the historical policy of appointing Governors only from residents of the islands-the two chief reasons for Hawaii's claim of "integrality...
...date.'' The July 1 wheat estimate-484,000,000 bu., about half a normal crop-had already told the story of the U. S. wheat farmer. The corn estimate-2,100,000,000 bu.-was by last week a piece of outdated optimism. The potato crop in upper New York State, in New Jersey, on Long Island was suffering severely. Massachusetts had to close all its forests to the public because of the fire hazard. On the Pacific Coast the fruit crop had already suffered considerably. In April and May drought had been a local disaster. In July...
Horizontal shading on the upper sections of the girl's thighs might be mistaken for the shadow cast by short panties made of leaded silk. But Photographer Fuchs, a shy, domesticated gentleman, is certain that the lines are the edges of his cut-out screen which did not even up the two degrees of exposure perfectly...