Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publicly rebuked Poland for oppressing her "German minority," privately accepted assurances that the Governor of Upper Silesia (responsible for much oppression) will be removed, although a friend of Polish Dictator Pilsudski...
...gave one of 50 recitals scheduled for the U. S., played with rare skill and sensitiveness a Porpora-Mozart-Beethoven program salted with pleasant short compositions of his own. Spalding's personality as well as his playing finds favor with his audiences. He is tall, distinguished-looking, dignified. Upper-class Americans admire him because he looks so much like one of themselves. He served during the War as an aviation officer, was awarded the Cross of the Crown of Italy, highest Italian honor ever given a foreign-born citizen. He plays excellent tennis, once won the amateur championship...
...more difficult callings," says he, "those in which sheer luck and low cunning are of least importance . . . man is just out of school at 60. This is as true in the rarefied upper realms of business as anywhere else. The younger man who manages to attain to some showy second or third rank among financiers and businessmen is so remarkable that the cheer leaders of low literature . . . and the sob sisters move down upon his abode in echelon formation. ... In the arts the matter is notorious. There are young geniuses and child prodigies, who are admired like the aardvark...
...week show with unmistakable certainty the desire of the undergraduate bodies to resume athletic relations in all sports except football. The resolution of the Harvard Student Council, stating that 'Harvard-Princeton competition cannot take place too soon' is in exact agreement with the previous Princeton resolution from the three upper class presidents, the chairman of the undergraduate council and all major and minor sports captains. Together the two declarations form clear evidence of the cordial feeling between the present student bodies and strongly support the earlier demands of both the 'Crimson' and the 'Princetonian...
Professor Cannon described his conclusive experiment. Using a cat, he severed all nerves connected with the heart, as well as all nerves connected with every organ which produces known hormones. He also cut the upper spinal cord transversely. The only nerves left intact were a few strands running from the spinal cord to the smooth muscle of the lower abdominal region. He then caused the fore part of the animal to struggle, and observed no change in the heart rate. After causing the hind part of the animal to struggle, however, he noticed a slow increase in the heart rate...