Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human heads have been secured from the village of Tambunum in New Guinea on the upper Sepik River, where white men have seldom been and which is one of the few regions in the world where head-hunting still flourishes. These heads once belonged to enemy tribesmen and were set up in the village "men's house," a ceremonial building for men only, to drive away evil spirits...
Last night the Harvard Band held its annual banquet in the Upper Dining Room of the Union. Tentative plans were formulated for a series of concerts this winter for which 53 men signed up. It is understood that they may possibly broadcast from Boston...
...professorial train wreckers, the Chinese soon had the upper hand...
With a grand piano, divan, lounge chairs, desks, and four electric heaters, he moved into an upper floor of the Express offices, then on grubby Shoe Lane. For months he practically lived there and learned the newspaper business...
Powder River is the fourth volume in a projected 24-volume series, edited by Constance Lindsay Skinner, called Rivers of America. Thus far the Kennebec, the Upper Mississippi, the Suwannee have been covered. One of the most promising publisher's projects of the decade. Rivers of America is conceived as "a literary and not an historical series." Unfortunately it is distinguished neither as literature nor as history. The worst features of regional writing-shallow local color and uncritical acceptance of apocrypha-make the books little more than extensions of the pioneer tales that fill magazine sections of Sunday newspapers...