Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sunday morning quiet of Manhattan's upper west side, two men entered the Hotel Monticello, went directly to room 831. There they found a youngish man in red silk pajamas sitting on the bed drinking orange juice. He had sat up late the night before, reading the New York Times. A chorus girl was tubbing in the bathroom, the three men went into room 829. A volley of shots shattered out. Then the two callers left as quietly as they had come. The chorus girl disappeared...
...affected states "to sign a treaty agreeing to build the dam" is also incorrect. The treaty negotiated by Mr. Hoover, the Colorado River compact signed November, 1922, not 1921, contains no agreement whatever to build Boulder Dam or any other dam. It merely divides Colorado River water between the upper and lower basin states. Boulder Dam is an important happening for the Southwest. I know you are desirous of having facts correctly stated...
...meeting is conducted both for Freshmen and upper classmen; work in the school, which will be continued throughout the fall rowing season, fulfills the requirement for Freshman exercise, and gives inexperienced men an opportunity to start on equal rating with others in the spring...
...Fosdick and to Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who have spared neither money ($4,000,000) nor thoughtful care for all details, the church is important only because of its prospective occupants. Who are they? They are students from every state and nation-tens of thousands who make upper Broadway near Riverside Drive the biggest student community (Columbia with all its schools, Barnard, Union Theological) in the U. S. They are, moreover, professors and friends of professors, thou- sands of educated people who live nearby and have jobs of more or less importance "down town." And, besides these, just...
...duration, a conversational give-and-take which stirs up the mind as few lecturers are able to do. And at his day's end he goes back to his study and bedchamber in an entry where his fellow students may be men from any or all three of the upper College classes, and perhaps one or more of his tutors, all presumably good neighbour who can be dropped in on at reasonable hours. This is a palace revolution from the bad old days when undergraduatos were abandoned to miscellaneous College or private domormitories and nondescript houses, even three-decker wooden...