Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blast of revivalistic piety that swept upper New York State a century ago that the counties in which Mormonism, the Shakers, the Oneida Community et al. flourished are still sometimes called "the Burnt-Over District." Last week new religious thoughts were stirring in lower New York, at two points on the Hudson River...
...Lord & Taylor and Arnold Constable. He was also elected alderman and got in the construction business. With Lawyer Max D. Steuer he put up the Winter Garden Building. It housed two theatres, one on the sixth floor, one on the first. Brother Billy, 45, started showing films in the upper auditorium in 1912. Brother Abe, 54, had been running a nickelodeon theatre of his own and drifted in to help. When Brother Herbert, 40, acquired his law degree from Columbia and Brother Morton, 30, was graduated from New York University, they helped...
Indifference has for quite awhile been the attitude of the upper classes toward rioting, but until lately freshmen have been able to whip up sufficient enthusiasm. Along with other "collegiate" tendencies, the riot spirit in recent years has been dying even among freshmen...
Although some of the reading is new, there is much that has already become quite familiar in the upper grades of school work, but if one has not had a thorough grounding in English literature before entering college, and desires to learn to appreciate the great authors of the mother language, English 79 is a highly satisfactory course...
...Golfer Travers turned businessman golfer, announced himself willing to play exhibition matches for money but not to hire out as a professional teacher. His first exhibition, and first important match since his elimination in the first round of the 1919 amateur, is scheduled for next month at Upper Montclair, N. J. where he lives. His opponent will be U. S. Open Champion Billy Burke...