Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First white man on record to enter what is now Nevada was Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces, priest of the Order of St. Francis. Seeking a route to upper California from Sonora, Mexico, he crossed what is now the State's southwestern corner in 1775. Let Reader Edwards refer to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of American Biography, C. A. Engelhardt's The Missions and Missionaries of California...
...reason why this energy omitted from a transmitting station should not disappear into free space and be lost to the cart. To explain this difficulty, Sir Oliver Heaviside in England and Arthur E. Kennelly simultaneously proposed the explanation that radio signals are reflected from an ionized layer in the upper atmosphere and the energy thereby returned to the earth...
However, the results of experimentation have shown that the simple hypothesis of Kennelly and Heaviside is not sufficient to represent the conditions that obtain in the upper atmosphere...
Loosely adapted from Watters & Hopkins' play, Burlesque, which ran on Broadway in 1927, Swing High, Swing Low somehow fails to give the spectacle of a wind instrument expert keeping a stiff upper-lip the emotional intensity which it no doubt deserves. Songs like Panamania and I Hear a Call to Arms, by Al Siegel and Sam Coslow, are appealing but hardly likely to be rated as classics by addicts of swing music. Vastly over-ballyhooed by Paramount, the picture's chief virtues are providing pretty Carole Lombard with a few comedy lines almost up to the standard...
...brilliant display of red, white, and blue lettering makes the jacket of Mary Borden's latest novel very attractive. Hidden away in this jacket is a book called "Action For Slander." Supposed to create an impression on sensation-seekers, this is a story of the hard-drinking, pleasure-loving upper class of England whose mixed loyalties involve the characters when it is a question of the other man's wife or a poker game...