Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built a public market on upper Broadway but it was not a financial success. The Astor policy with real estate had always been to buy, hold for a rise and sell at a profit but put up no improvements. Vincent Astor, during the booming '20s, sold a great deal of property. On onetime Astor land now stands Manhattan's Paramount Building, its Longacre Building, half of its Empire State Building and many another. But Vincent Astor broke family tradition by improving Astor property. He put up $10,000,000 worth of buildings, modernized many old ones, became proud...
...glands, which regulate the body's use of calcium and phosphorous. The disease, which produces circus sideshows' "stone men," is usually not fatal to adults, sometimes causing only a local ossification. Some physicians think there is a long chance of saving Benjamin Hendrick, whose back, thighs and upper arms are already hard as rock, if his parathyroids can be stimulated to check the flow of calcium. But most of the doctors at his bedside believe the hardening will go on & on until it reaches some vital organ and stops it for good...
News of his death was withheld until the stockmarket closed. At 4 o'clock the curtains of the upper floor where he lay were drawn, and the partners announced that Kuhn, Loeb would remain closed for four days. A few minutes later J. P. Morgan hurried over on foot from No. 23 to pay his respects. So did Morgan Partners Lamont and Leffingwell. At 4:30 a black box was carried out of No. 52, driven to the Kahn home at No. 1100 Fifth...
...room containing fire extinguishers but it was locked. Overhead 100 sleeping men, wards of the Federal Transient Relief Bureau, leaped out of bed, ran for the windows. No fire escapes. They rushed to the back of the building. A wall of flame. Some jumped in terror from upper windows. Others swung in their underwear from ice-covered telephone wires. In the smouldering ashes firemen found 14 charred bodies-seven black, seven white. Three others died later. From Washington Relief Administrator Hopkins promptly dispatched a special agent to investigate the Federal Government's worst relief disaster this year...
...will show a satisfactory knowledge of English composition, will have acquaintance with one foreign languages, will learn laboratory technique through a laboratory course, will learn the use of the library through history and similar courses, and will take a required course in Citizenship and in English Composition. In the upper division we think that the grouping of the departments into schools has coordinated and broadened the work of the University and has made a better basis for the graduate professional schools...