Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eben MacBurney Byers, 51, popular Pittsburgh sportsman and ironmaster, fell out of an upper berth five years ago returning from a Yale-Harvard football game. He hurt his arm. His Pittsburgh physiotherapist, Dr. Charles Clinton Moyar, prescribed a patented drink called ''Radithor." It was distilled water containing traces of radium and mesothorium (another radioactive substance). The dope eased the arm pain, braced Byers up. He enthusiastically recommended it to friends, sent them cases of it, even gave some to one of his horses. Last week Eben Byers died in Manhattan of radium poisoning. His close friend Mrs. Mary F. Hill...
...dynamo of hostile energy. Alert and quick-witted, he is always on the job. His oratory is loud, passionate, almost physical as his 170-lb. body crouches and bends and his chunky arms thrash the air. He is one of the best parliamentarians in the House. Representing a poor upper-East-Side district of Manhattan, he has developed a political philosophy which is definitely radical. He distrusts wealth, individual or corporate, believes it should somehow be redistributed for the good of all. Yet he does not sponsor crack-brained ideas for easy hand-outs to abolish poverty. He is sincere...
...important economic and social experiments within the States. Does Kansas want to set up a compulsory Labor Court to fix wages and outlaw strikes? The Supreme Court, under the second "due process" clause, says it may not. Does Wisconsin want to penalize Pullman Co. for letting down empty upper berths? The Supreme Court says Wisconsin would unconstitutionally deprive the company of its "liberty." May Florida fix certain below-cost freight rates on special commodities to build up a local industry? No, says the Supreme Court. Does North Dakota want to establish a freight tariff so unreasonably low that the Northern...
Professor Reck took the Oldoway man home to Berlin where he examined the find in detail. Oldoway stood 5 ft. 10½ in. He had long legs and a long narrow head. His nose was big, his upper lip long, his jaw and chin massive. He looked like many a Hamite still to be seen in Northeastern Africa. To Professor Reck, Oldoway's lower teeth seemed filed to points, a fashion current among certain living African tribes...
Santa Lucia granite, seaworn boulders rolled up from the shore and heaved into place by Poet Jeffers for his own perch. For several years the stones rose in their courses; as they began to invade the upper air, a hawk dropped down to haunt them. Now Hawk Tower stands 30 ft. high; in its turreted top is a socket to hold a flag pole to flaunt a flag, though neither hawks nor Poet Jeffers favor flapping flags...