Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hens annually cackle over 31 billion eggs. Most of the cackling takes place in the upper Mississippi Valley. Six billion eggs are used on the 5,000,000 farms that produce them, the rest go forth to the egg markets. About 80% of these eggs are just by-products of general farming as contrasted to poultry farming. The poultry and egg industry is sixth in the agricultural list, with the value of poultry sold coming to $561,000,000 and eggs to $527,000,000. Certain markets have peculiarities: Manhattan wants white eggs, Boston, brown...
Dodging the few remaining ice cakes left by the recent burst of warm spring weather, 18 upperclass crews covered the stretch between Newell Boathouse and the upper end of the one half mile straight stretch on the Charles yesterday afternoon in the first outdoor practice of the 1930 season. The crews will abandon the three practice periods a week schedule for daily rowing as long as the river remains open...
...upper classmen in good standing are eligible to compete. Candidates should come prepared to speak for four minutes upon either side of one of the following propositions...
...Members of the Canadian Parliament's Upper House are appointed by the Governor-General for life, their duties no more exacting than those of members of a British House of Lords. To qualify they must be over 30 years old, British subjects residing in the province which they represent, owners of at least $4,000 worth of property...
...Hartford, Conn., it would probably by this time be a chipped and crumbling mass. Reason: U. S. climate is inimical to fine sculptural stonework. Last week Sculptor George Grey Barnard had much to say about the decay of the medieval sculptures in the famed Cloisters established by himself in upper Manhattan and later purchased by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. for Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. Most of this outdoor statuary has disintegrated more in its 20 years in the U. S. than in the preceding six centuries in Europe. Even the indoor pieces have been somewhat affected...