Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Euphrates, then along the coast of the Mediterranean to Jerusalem lies a great "fertile crescent," skirting the Arabian Desert. By continuing the western tip of this crescent into Egypt to the equally fertile Nile basin, a 3,500-mi. semicircle can be drawn from the Persian Gulf to the upper reaches of the Nile. It is this semicircle that Dr. Breasted has chosen for his field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos, lower down; Sakkara and Cairo, at the delta; in Asia Minor, Megiddo, on the Jordan...
...another one just like it-placed at the gates of his palace 2,600 years ago to celebrate his conquests and, superstitiously, to ward off evil spirits. Dr. Breasted's sharp-bearded little colleague, Dr. Edward Chiera, dug up both bulls two years ago at Khorsabad on the upper Tigris. The Iraq Government kept one but after much sweating & swearing, an expensive ocean carry, a perilous rail trip, Dr. Chiera got his bull to Chicago. He kept it out on a football field under tarpaulins until the new building was ready. Now, until Chicago decays and disappears and future...
Major-General Fox Conner, U. S. A., will be the guest of honor at the weekly House dinner at Adams House tonight. After dinner he will talk informally in the Upper Common Room on some phases of the operations and organization of the American Expeditionary Force in the World War, when he was General Pershing's Chief of Operations...
...aperture is a light. The light illuminates a cell placed on a slide in the aperture. By an arrangement of prisms placed periscope-wise in the bar, the image of the cell is carried through the microscope-objective, to one prism, then to the other, then through the upper lens of the microscope to the eyepiece, which is directly above the axis. The bar is then rotated at the rate of 8.000 revolutions a minute, and the whirling cell at one end of the bar can be seen through the stationary eyepiece over its centre. But the image thus presented...
Last week the bluffing Katangans suddenly realized they no longer held the upper hand. An event occurred which led them hurriedly to cable their agreement to curtail to 181,000,000 lb. of copper a year, of which only 115,000,000 or 26% of capacity would be for sale. But their acceptance brought no jubilation in the U. S. The same event which had startled the men from Katanga, took the U. S. industry by surprise and was no conference-table bluff. Copper's famed United Front was broken...