Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other candidates were: James Mansfield Estabrook '34, of New York City, Henry Edward Holm '34, of Hancock, Michigan, John Moore Morse '34, of Brookline, George Hinckley Porter '34, of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, and Harold Sol Saxe '34, of Omaha, Nebraska...
...Party's Over (written & produced by Daniel Kusell). The dramatic saga of the Blakeleys is another addition to the rapidly increasing play cycle about family life in New York City. It is not so pungent a narrative as that which described the Hallams of the Upper West Side (Another Language). In their Park Avenue purgatory, the Langdons of A Saturday Night were more urbane. The Rimplegars of Brooklyn (Three-Cornered Moon) still hold the all time record for dulcet insanity. But the Blakeleys, who inhabit a presentable but unspecified sector, amuse at times...
...Grown principally on the Pacific Coast and in upper New York State. †The best brewing barley is grown mostly in Iowa. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, California. *Only a little over 2% of U. S. production. Beer like ice is mostly a local product, though it can be shipped far & wide as Budweiser was. *Phonetic spelling of his last name...
...tables of orchid exhibits. He watched the orchids, bright and delicate, crumple slowly after four days in the crowd's breath. Now & then he eyed particularly a spray of big plum-striped orchids, a hybrid whose glazed hairy petals crumpled not at all. This extraordinary flower had equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best specimen orchid plant shown by a commercial grower. The little old man was John Emil Lager, orchid-hunter...
...spite of starting this ambitious project in a depression year, we received more applications than could possibly be filled. The two upper classes were able to gain admittance but only about 20 per cent of the Sophomore Class, could be taken...