Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the assembled Upper-classmen and Freshmen that the practices would only last one hour. The plan is to have them scheduled from Monday through Thursday until the last part...
...popular with the people, Farouk nevertheless faced the fact that the fellaheen, most of whom are illiterate, had for years voted for the Wafdists, who passed out the bribes, controlled the police and election officials. In this election Farouk controlled the police and officials. Smartly, he held elections in Upper & Lower Egypt on two different days so his police and troops could concentrate in one section at a time. Nahas Pasha followers were clamped in jail, their identity cards taken up to prevent their voting. A dozen persons were killed, scores injured in clashes. To the 264 seats, only twelve...
...high point of his African mountain climbing was a six-day ascent of the mysterious Ruwenzori Range in Uganda, anciently called the Mountains of the Moon, which had been climbed successfully only twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori...
Yardling debaters face the Yale freshmen today, at 8 o'clock in the upper common room of the Union, taking the affirmative side of the question: "Resolved, That this house approves the President's recommendation for increased appropriations for the Army and Navy...
...second general meeting of the newly formed Harvard Yacht Club will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room...