Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia University's fire testing station at Green Point, L. I. the upper surface of a floor of aerocrete 4½ in. thick kept a temperature of 139° to 207° F. during the last hour of a four-hour fire of 1,825° F. blazing underneath. (The maximum temperature of a burning fire proof building averages 1,700° F.) The same floor when cooled resisted a load of 450 lb. per sq. in. with deflections ranging from...
Proud indeed last week were followers of Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, painter-explorer-mystic. In the 24-story apartment-house-museum which his disciples have built for him on upper Riverside Drive, Manhattan, there was happy talk about the Master's latest step in his mission of Unifying Humanity Through Art. From Roerich in Paris had come a cable saying that the League of Nations' International Commission of Intellectual Cooperation (TIME, Aug. 4) had endorsed an international convention suggested by him to ensure Art's neutrality and safety in wartime. The "Roerich Pact" was drawn...
...Kapp putsch (revolution) of 1920 put Prussian militarists in temporary bad odor. The Young German Order expanded as a great war veteran's organization, forgot the Bolshevists, concentrated on Germany's ancient enemies: France and Poland. In 1921 red-cheeked Capt. Mahraun was busy shooting Poles in upper Silesia. Few years ago, like St. Francis of Assisi he saw a great light, reformed, put away his gun and, working for reconciliation with France, announced that the Young German Order could only save Germany through parliamentary means, that it had "set its face unalterably against putsch power...
...bellicose Republican boss should arise in upper New York state, defy Democratic Governor Roosevelt and attempt to make a 49th state out of the environs of Poughkeepsie, the Federal Government and the U. S. Army would doubtless give him short shrift. But things are different in Brazil. Rebellious José Pereira has potent friends in Rio de Janeiro. Though over 500 rebels and Parahyba state police have been killed since February near Princeza, Federal troops have not been called out, nor has the State President of Pernambuco allowed State President Pessoa to bring his militia through Pernambuco territory to surround...
Secretary of War Hurley, No. 3, got a special White House dispensation to make a survey of the upper Mississippi Valley in connection with waterway development. His vacation will probably come later in the month...