Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper reaches of the Colonial Theatre, the applause of the audience sounded like rain on the roof. Two attendants, discussing the play outside the door of the dressing room number, parted hastily to admit Alice Brady, the Lavinia Mannon of O'Neill's long but not tedious "Mourning Becomes Electra." Miss Brady manoeuvred around adeptly in her black hoop skirts. Questioned about her agility she replied...
Considerable stir occurred in Yard circles Saturday when it was found that in anticipation of an attack on the Harvard Hall bell, newly located in the loft of the now chapel, Major Apted had placed one of his men in the upper regions of Thayer Hall. The watchman, ready to give the alarm if a light should appear in the steelwork of the chapel tower, was not, as some have said, celebrating the coming holiday. For the seventh consecutive day, however, Memorial Hall was in silence at the turn of the hour, and it looks as though the clapper case...
...upper fastnesses of Minnesota, amid a stubby growth of pine and spruce there lies Itasca Lake. Here rises the Mississippi. In the early spring of 1541 canoes floated down the sluggish current of this river that drains the mountain ranges of the United States, and a Spaniard discovered the Father of the Waters. But fever hangs in the mists of the low country and on one black night DeSoto's body was lowered away into the quiet water...
Under present conditions, ambitions students are afforded the opportunity for a thorough education, while the lectsurely man finds little difficulty in ekeing out the required minimum marks. Despite the attractiveness of added remuneration from a wealthy upper stratum those who suggest panaceas for stricken budgets should consider that a university ought primarily to maintain its scholastic standard. The proposal of the Graduate's Magazine, if adopted, would injure the University's reputation and attract a group sure to be stagnant and barren of any real worth other than financial...
...Young in years and mentally alert, he could hardly speak. His head was swathed in bandages. He had undergone two successive operations in which his whole upper jaw, excepting two front teeth, and most of his lower jaw had been removed. All the remaining bone tissue of his body was slowly disintegrating, and holes were actually forming in his skull...