Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upper registers of the "Claviphone," it is claimed, are an improvement over those of an ordinary piano, long a problem to engineers. Says Inventor Nernst: "My friend Einstein, who, you know, is very musical, says they [high piano notes] sound like porcelain getting smashed...
...first time, talked arms limitation (TIME. July 20). In Paris he had participated in the preliminaries to the London economic conference which he attended as a delegate (TiME. Aug. 3). He had been to Berlin, met President von Hindenburg and Chancellor Briining, departed advising them to "keep a stiff upper lip." At Rogart in Scotland he had rented a farmhouse on the Duke of Sutherland's estate, rested for a month. Prime Minister MacDonald motored the 120 mi. from Lossiemouth to pay him a two-day visit. Later Mr. Stimson had to deny formally that they had discussed...
...Times the Houris the product of a Baker student, Valentine Davies. It is a tricky mystery play through which march 26 necessary and unnecessary characters. The audience is permitted to peep in on the doings during the hour before midnight on three separate floors of the Blake home on upper Fifth Avenue. The view of each floor requires...
...that "the average wild animal has character, personality and conscience, pretty much like the average human being. He is temperamental, perverse, vicious, phlegmatic, diffident and deceitful as the case may be. Entertainment lies in discerning these traits and adroitly checkmating them. Only in this way can one gain the upper hand. It's a sort of game. Where some men play golf, those of us at the New York Zoological Park play animals. Usually we win. Once in a while we lose...
...calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo had run aground on Shovelful Shoal off the upper tip of Long Island; then that H.G. Leslie's 40-footer Typhoon, mistaking the headlights of cars for harbor lights, had run aground on the ocean shore across the Cape from Provincetown. Vanitie, Valiant and many another were towed into Provincetown harbor; the rest, tacking slowly against a light...