Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every few hours last week either the Government of Colombia or the Government of Peru would announce that a skirmish had been fought, a river gunboat bombed or an airplane shot at in the vicinity of Leticia, the remote, malarial jungle town on the upper Amazon ceded by Peru to Colombia in 1922, seized by Peruvian irregulars last September, squabbled over ever since (TIME...
...behavior of the Oxford Union last week was more than a campus scandal. To the whole rugged, wealthy British upper middle class (not to mention the peerage & landed gentry) it was a national calamity. They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
Married. Princess Luba Obolensky; and Prince Serge Gregory Troubetzkoy; scions of Russia's greatest pre-Revolution houses who have intermarried for five generations; in a Russian Orthodox Church in upper Manhattan. In 1931 the groom married the bride's sister. Princess Anna Obolensky, who two months later jumped off the Eiffel Tower...
...confused with the new Shoreham, an apartment hotel off upper Connecticut Avenue...
...Switzerland heard a dull and distant rumble. It might have been thunder, but the sky was clear. A minute and a half later the same sound reached Cologne, Germany, 250 miles to the north. Between 6:00 and 6:15 that dreadful roar echoed the entire length of the upper Rhine, and had been heard in five countries: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland. It marked the death of 62 people, injury to over 1,000, total destruction of a gas tank, iron works, benzol plant, all belonging to the Neunkirchen Iron Works, and most of the industrial section of Neunkirchen...