Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared to have just one tooth in his upper jaw. We noticed that Bapuji . . . would take from a bowl an artificial set of teeth to manage the scientific mastication of his breakfast. If he were to retain them during the day he would look younger and better than he really does. ... So we notice that he left his artificial dentistry for its strictly scientific use at the next meal, and went on his way a smiling, toothless old man." Can TIME'S correspondent arrange to count St. Gandhi's teeth (or tooth) and settle this...
...building is in the modernized Georgian style and in keeping with the surrounding Harvard Buildings. An unusual feature, and one deserving of attention, is the hand-carved frieze above the upper tier of windows on the sides of the building forming the interior courtyard. This carving was done directly on the face of the brick in a bold, straight-forward manner, and portrays animal and plant life in its abundance giving at the same time a warm, friendly tone to the structure. The three wings already constructed from a rectangular court, with raised terraces which slope down to the still...
Walter Smith, 22, youngest son of Alfred Emanuel Smith, was arraigned on a charge of manslaughter after his automobile struck and killed an elderly unemployed man in upper Manhattan. He was accompanied by an instructor in Manhattan College, whither they were returning at 2.30 a.m. Police first gave out the youth's name as "Walter Slith, 35." When newsmen learned his real identity they were barred from the room where the charge of manslaughter was being entered against him. During the arraignment photographers were expelled from court. Walter's brother, Lawyer Alfred E. Smith Jr. and his cousin, Lawyer John...
Slate blue, the geese have white heads and upper necks when they fly south. But in the autumn a copperish red smudge appears on their heads. Dr. Pearson thinks it is caused by something they drink...
...name she had chosen when she was a chorus girl (Charlotte Leslie) mentioned by either counsel. Mr. Kresel called her "the contestant"; Mr. Steuer, pointing, described her as "the lady at the end of the table." Plump, smiling, dressed in the slightly garish style of a typical upper-west side hausfrau, Charlotte Fixel waited for the court to decide whether she was entitled to demand one-half of an estate which she estimated at $75,000,000 or whether she would emerge, after her years of slightly dubious affluence, a dumpy disappointed warning to women who place their faith...