Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Undergraduates interested in sailing have been invited to attend a first meeting on yachting which will be held tonight in the Adams House Upper Common Room at 7.15 o'clock...
...dreams of Harvard sailors who have looked with envy on Tech's fleet of sailing dinghies appear to be coming true as announcement is made of an organization meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock for all those interested in yachting...
Casting about for something new with which to attack mouse sarcoma 180. Dr. Richard Lewisohn of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital decided to try spleen extract. The functions of the spleen, an organ in the upper left abdomen, are not wholly understood but one of them is to disintegrate red blood corpuscles and set free their hemoglobin. It has been observed that when bits of cancer are transported by the bloodstream to colonize elsewhere in the body, the spleen is seldom affected. Spleen extract had been tried against cancer before, without success. Dr. Lewisohn decided that...
...President Jack Frye. At the same time Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co. was building the great high-altitude Air Corps' B-17 bombers which last month jauntily flew 10,000 miles around South America. Dissatisfied with Douglas' progress and convinced by Tomlinson's tests that upper-air flight was feasible, T. W. A. became sold on Boeing's idea of a big passenger fuselage for the well-tested wings and tail of the Air Corps' B-17 bomber, ordered six. Its weight, too, would be just within the "Big Five" agreement...
MOGUK, BURMA, Dec. 22 (By Pony Express to London)--On the banks of the Irrawaddy river, in Upper Burma, the American Southeast Asiatic Expedition has found a prehistoric link between two of Asia's most ancient stone age cultures...