Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calculation is possible. Did anybody at home ever see 2,000,000 people gathered in one place? It is a stupendous sight. Imagine a great oblong field almost as large as Central Park in New York, but perfectly flat and treeless except for one lone oak. "At the upper end. in three groups of three each were 150 ft. flat frames of bunting ingeniously perforated against the wind force-the national flag in the centre flanked on each side by a swastika banner. In front of these, beside the parade oak, a single bare speaker's stand...
Frolicking Puritans will not be in evidence this season among the revelling hordes of the upper Houses, since the Winthrop House Committee has definitely decided that they will hold no Spring Dance this year. Apparently there are no available dates...
...position of prime importance. Wide use of moving pictures in science, history, and fine arts courses would offer all students the advantage of a vivid, concise presentation of carefully arranged subject matter and would reduce the burden of lecturing to the minimum. At Harvard it would allow the upper stratum of the faculty, now overweighted with course work, to devote more of its time to individual and tutorial studies. These benefits cannot be secured if the Film Foundation is allowed to languish in silence to an unmourned demise. Stimulated by an increased use of its productions in courses, it might...
...dressed was the repulsive wound extending through his jaw and to his nose; then he took off the lower part of his pajamas and exposed some open sores which he had on his thighs, some souvenirs of lessons in the art of fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive. Prudent, he saved enough money to buy a ranch in Andalusia, with his Peruvian wife lives there now, a retired national idol...
...minority (there always is one) which opposed, in the Academic Council, the move to change Stanford's educational setup by eliminating probation and disqualification among upper classmen and graduates contended that the move will tend to allow a "country club atmosphere" to permeate these dear old grounds...