Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatrical few prints by "cabinet a man who could hold his head up with any Photosecessionist, whose prints were not only of considerable artistic merit but invaluable historic documents: Brady, the Civil War photographer. Mathew B. Brady (he did not know what the B. stood for) was born in upper New York in about 1823. As a young man he met Samuel Finley Breese Morse, an able painter best known as the in ventor of the telegraph. Through him Brady became interested in Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's invention- and in the photographic experiments which Morse and Professor...
...first quarter of the game, with Harvard always holding the upper hand, had been a trifle dull, certainly this last period provided enough excitement for the two thousand Abington rooters who had turned out to see the holiday tussle...
...some Freshmen who wish to study from time to time and the addition of a chorus of Reinhardts to the rumble of subways, street, cars, automobiles, a ND bells is distracting. Since it encompasses the entire Freshman class, the Yard may be considered a place of preparation for the upper classes. But that is no justification for the turning of the Yard into a preparatory school...
...Borah (faltering)-Well, I think it might not be proper; I think there was a condition there, existing prior to that time, which needed consideration. . . . I would change the Polish Corridor if it was [sic] possible to do so; and I would change the situation with reference to Upper Silesia if I could...
...sack is just big enough to let the heart expand comfortably. Often enough to concern doctors the sacks become inflamed, from pneumonia, rheumatic fever and other infectious diseases. The sacks may stick together. Or the outer sack may adhere to the inside of the chest wall or to the upper side of the diaphragm. Or fibrous bands may develop and constrict the heart. During early pericardiac inflammation, Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner of Cornell University pumps a little nitrogen-rich air between the two sacks. The gas holds the tissues apart until the inflammation goes away. Inflammation causes an exudation from...