Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representing the German minority in Lithuania, Dr. Paul Schiemann thundered that "something must be done to check the war spirit which has won the upper hand in this world...
From the third to the fifth day of the fever dirty pink spots appear?first on the abdomen and upper chest, then on the back, then rapidly all over the body. Soon the spots become rusty pink. Some of them darken to purple, blue, brown, then disappear...
...Pericles' Age, then America of the last century. Viewing the two whole, the students might learn to think and live wisely against their contemporary background. So thought Dr. Meiklejohn. To his insurgent College came farm-boys (of native and foreign-born Wisconsin families), Jews from the East, middle and upper-class Wisconsinites, fresh young radicals and quiet conservatives. The Advisers (teachers) had five successive classes-to watch, each of which went on into the University on "the Hill" after sophomore year. Last year it was announced that the 1932 sophomores would be the last experimental batch. A survey...
...Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht Oneida. While the yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most of his upper left jaw and part of his palate were cut away. Five days later President Cleveland was able to walk ashore when the Oneida docked at his Massachusetts summer home. A vulcanized rubber jaw was inserted, his speech was not affected, Wall Street never knew. Not until 1917 did Surgeon Keen...
Readers of Time magazine were profoundly shocked a few weeks ago by a photograph of a man whose upper jaw, nose, and cheeks were missing; the photograph was from a little book called "The Horror of It," published by a group of pacifists to show the real, unheroic, revolting side of war. Pictures and scraps of poetry gleaned from the work of soldiers compose the book. It comes up to the standard of ghoulish horror which Time's picture promised, and it is admittedly not pleasant; it might even be condemned as morbid if there were not a saving grace...