Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always placed violet-tinted white jade as the highest in grade and value. A few of these places where it was seen were: the Emperor's Museum in the "Forbidden City," Peking (now Peiping), China (time, about 11 years ago), finely carved Buddhas and other ornaments; Mandalay and upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River, Burma, India, bead necklaces, etc.; Tibet, lama's hand prayer wheels...
...Fortnight ago at the Arkansas Democratic State Convention, Senator Watson's rival Floor-leader. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, had just reached the high pitch of a speech when out flew his false upper teeth. Retiring to the wings, he reinserted the plate and asked: "Why didn't they laugh?" A friend: "You had them spell-bound...
...Dean of the Faculty Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, a quiet, smiling little mathematician, baseball addict, Princeton teacher for 32 years, whose memory is so prodigious that he needs no filing cabinets in his office. Dean Eisenhart's monument is Princeton's famed four-course plan, instituted in 1924, by which upper-class students choose two major courses and two minor ones and write a full-size thesis. Scholastically, Princeton is at its peak, the Depression perhaps having had something to do with making the students take brain-training seriously...
...predicament neither Foreman Davis nor anyone else knew. Next day Foreman Davis looked to see if the snake was still there. It was. With threshing tail it had ripped the web to shreds, but several strands still held its head fast. The spider, warily keeping to the upper part of the web, was busily spinning fresh strands to strengthen...
...first place, the number of men affected by the change is not as large as it would appear on first thought. The Freshman library hours are unchanged. House libraries through experienced have filled the needs of a great bulk of the upper classes. In fact the additional pressure upon the House libraries that may occur should serve as a healthful stimulant in the perfection of these comparatively recent institutions. Graduate students, commuters, and Faculty members constitute the largest groups drastically affected, and yet even here it should be possible for the bibliophiles to adjust themselves to the established library hours...