Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to getting the spectra of the meteors, the watchers hope to find the velocity of the train drifts in the upper atmosphere, 60 miles above the earth. At this height there is a terrific speed and nothing else gives as good an idea of the velocity as the paths of the meteors...
...Commons a sweeping "Emergency Powers Bill." If, as he expects, the House of Lords should balk at this, his Majesty must then be "ad- vised" (i. e. compelled) to create enough new peers to pass the bill and give Labor's premier Rooseveltian powers. Knowing Britain's upper classes for what they are-hard and sturdy nuts to crack-Sir Stafford fears class war over...
...anything else. His language may appear hard-boiled but it is really a carefully artificial dialect. His subjects, as carefully chosen as his style, are almost always illustrations of the same theme: the sportsman caught in an unsportingly tight place and, with various versions of the Hemingway stiff upper lip, taking it like a sportsman. The motto on his title-page states his creed more explicitly than before: "Unlike all other forms of lutte or combat the conditions are that the winner shall take nothing; neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notions of glory...
...meeting of the Liberal Club tonight David I. Walsh, Senior Senator from Massachusetts, will speak in the Adams House Upper Common Room. There will be an informal dinner in the House before the meeting at which Professor Arthur N. Holcombe '06, who is presiding, James P. Baxter, 3rd, and some of the members of the Liberal Club will be present...
Senator Walsh will speak to the club on Friday evening in the Adams House Upper Common Room. Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, will preside. Senator Walsh is expected to address the Liberal Club on some phase of the National Recovery Administration...