Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least 63 stories high, on the plot adjacent to Mr. Adler's. It will be built for Henry L. Doherty & Co. as the first unit of a chain of skyscrapers. Unique features will include five entrances, escalators for the first seven floors, double-decked elevators of which the upper compartments will stop at odd floors, lower compartments at even ones...
...statistics released today on the fields of concentration selected by the class of 1933 show that Economics takes a bigger lead than ever before as the preferential field. Last fall figures on the three upper classes in the college showed the same situation. Is it that Economics has replaced English as the reputed easy field? Or is the desire to be well prepared for business leading men into this now popular branch of education...
...should be gone, merely announced that he would import no more liquors, an announcement which was permitted to appear as a compliment to President Hoover. The new British Ambassador purposes to build up a large and hospitable stock in the cellar of the new embassy now nearing completion on upper Massachusetts Avenue...
Roberta, 18, daughter of Soul Saver Aimee Semple McPherson, sailing with her mother from Palestine to Constantinople, fell from the upper to the lower deck of the boat, suffering severe injury. Her condition prevented Savior McPherson from accompanying her flock to Oberammergau, Germany...
...photographic work the cell is illuminated with cadmium light (beyond the upper reach of the visible spectrum) which gives a trueness of detail on the plate unobtainable with ordinary light containing a variety of wavelengths...