Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual competition for positions as coxswains of the various crews which will take the water next week will be inaugurated with a meeting on Monday, March 2, at 4 o'clock in the upper floor of Weld boat house...
There may have been a time when the men of the upper classes in England might have expected to go through life without exerting themselves over- much, but those days have gone by. National opinion condemns idleness. Economic pressure demands activity. Even if they have not gone by for Public School Boys in general they have emphatically gone by for those of them who wish to make business their profession...
...inter-class swimming meet for Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the pool of the New Indoor Athletic Building, when members of the three upper classes will have an opportunity to show their skill in six swimming events and in diving. "The winning class in this meet," A. W. Samborski '26, director of Intramural Athletics states, "will meet the champion Yale class team on Saturday afternoon, March 7, in the Harvard pool...
...observer had remarked that the plane behaved much as an alighting bird breasts the wind with its wings to check its speed, the comparison would have been more than poetical. The wings of the biplane, adjustable in flight, did just that. Lower and upper wings are rigidly connected with struts, remain in the same relation to each other. But by a hand-crank in the pilot's cockpit, the lower wing can be moved fore & aft, pendulum-like, through an arc of 14 degrees, tilting the upper wing to the same degree. About to land, the pilot sets...
...newest Epstein, a 6-ft. marble called Genesis, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The storm broke the next morning. The statue is of a heavy, brooding, pregnant female figure with the synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin. The upper part of the erect torso is realistically rounded. The lower part is an. exaggerated rotundity of all anatomy. The thighs (they are cut off just above the knees) are portly kegs. Focus of all the curves is the gestation. Commented the Daily Express: "You white foulness! This man cracks bad jokes...