Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia's future water needs, joined the fray. To Special Master Charles Newell Burch of Memphis the Supreme Court referred the case for hearing. Last February Mr. Burch in his report advised the Court to allow New York to draw 440,000,000 gal. per day from the upper Delaware (about one-sixth of its average flow) provided it constructed plants to eliminate sewage and industrial waste from the river below the diversion...
Reassured, T. R. H. plunged again into a round of sports, balls, nightclubbing and worse. By "worse" is meant the escapade of Prince George. Having bathed at Copacabana Beach last week he walked out of the water, removed the upper half of his suit, lay down Gandhi-like on the sand...
...Kimball's magnum opus is to be a complete daily weather map of the ocean - some day of the upper air. To the completion of that task he is as devoted as a painter to an unfinished canvas. That, he says, is why he has never flown. "I don't believe I ever will. I want to see this work through. I see no reason I should take the extra chance...
Displaying a speedy synchronized stroke that took their opponents completely by surprise, a smooth-rowing Lowell House eight definitely outclassed the Dunster crew yesterday, winning by a length and a half on the upper half mile course. The race came as a climax of the rivalry that has existed between the two crews since their organization at the opening of the Spring rowing season...
...institutions from which the six crusaders have been selected are Asbury College (Wilmore, Ky.), Boston University, Syracuse University, and Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.). The young men will work in pairs. They will start out from Boston, New York and Philadelphia this spring, moving west across the upper half of the U. S., visiting 50 cities per year. They will work the lower half of the country from west to east. In the South the pledge idea has already been started locally, said Dr. Wilson; 665,000 signatures have already been obtained...