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Word: upper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time since the Vagabond has allowed himself to slip into one of those moods in which he contents himself with watching the smoke float ceilingwards. Sentimentalism is rather apt to get the upper hand at such moments and it is all too easy for an old fellow to become roseate. So the Vagabond has kept busy with his lectures and his books and left sessions with a pipe to Old Mother Advocate who has been addicted to such whims these many years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/21/1930 | See Source »

Duke Borea d'Olmo, detecting this mistake, verbally advised correspondents that the marriage would take place in the lower end Church of St. Francis. He then discovered that this church is dedicated to the dead, hastily transferred the ceremony to the upper end Church of St. Francis, dedicated to the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY-BULGARIA: Such a Wedding! | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Stockbroker Edwin Sibley Webster of Stone & Webster paid $32,500 for a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, before he noticed a small stamp in the upper right hand corner on the back of the canvas: COPY FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fake Lowestoft | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Chinese Lowestoft porcelain was never made in Lowestoft, England. It is 18th & 19th Century Chinese porcelain turned principally on upper Kiang Si province, decorated in Canton by Chinese workmen with coats of arms, religious symbols, ships and other designs supplied by British and American colonial buyers. The porcelain was sometimes carried in the ships of the Dutch East India Company to Amsterdam. Some of the early British orders were taken and delivered by the firm of Baker & Allen of Lowestoft, who stamped the porcelain with their own mark, hence the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fake Lowestoft | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...courses given at Harvard. This is made necessary by the fact that many men can take them only as a fifth or extra course because of the requirement of concentration and distribution. Furthermore, it is evident that the Government wants for its, Reserves not scholars of the upper rank lists, but men of character and ability in other fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Preface to a Voyage | 11/1/1930 | See Source »

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