Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gigantic income of Edward Stephen Harkness. Had Columbia not received it, the U. S. and New York State would have taken it as income taxes. The gift, Mr. Harkness indicated, was to be allocated to the great Medical Center which the university and Presbyterian Hospital have organized in upper Manhattan; and the Medical Center should use it for an Eye Institute.* Pathologists can describe diseased eye conditions. Ophthalmologists can treat and cure a great many of the diseases. But knowledge of the causes of some of those diseases, for example cataract, is hypothetical. Even the physiology of the normal...
When Victor Nave, window washer, crawled out to do a tenth-story window of San Francisco's Rochester building one day last week, he found a falcon's nest on an upper ledge. A thorough cleaning nan, he swept it away. Down plunged sticks, straw and some squeaking nestlings. Down, too, with beak and talons at Victor Nave's face plunged the mother hawk, her mate hovering near with angry cries. Victor Nave, his face streaming blood, clung to the window ledge as the birds dashed at him again & again. At last he loosed his hold, steadied...
...engrossed in taking a vacation. Business was a bit slack, so he wired his old friend, Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the able prognosticator, to come out of his mysterious retreat.... its whereabouts are known only to the Vagabond, his boon companion.... and off they went to the upper reaches of the White Mountains...
Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '33, was appointed by the president as Chairman of the Student Council Committee on Freshman Affairs. He will succeed Wood as upper class leader in Freshman activities for the Class of 1935; it will be his duty, with the assistance of the Freshman Hall proctors, to guide the coming class in its choice of dormitory committees, and in the selection of the 1935 Red Book Board...
From detailed measurement it is apparent that in the Harvard men all measurements have increased with the exception of head breath, breath of hips, and length of the upper arm. This means that Harvard men are taller and relatively more slender than their fathers, and have increased particularly in leg length, shoulder breadth, and thoracic circumference, but have decreased in hip breadth. The present evolution fervency is toward an accentuation of masculine characters of body build. As a matter for fact the same is true of the college daughters...