Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Upper Darby...
Since 1927, it has been the policy of the Law School to admit all graduates of "colleges of high grade", who ranked in the upper three quarters of the class, and graduates of other colleges who ranked in the first quarter of the class...
Four members of the Union Debating Society took part in a debate in the Upper Common Room of the Union last night on the subject: "Resolved, That in the event of a foreign war on insurrection, an embargo should immediately go into ecect upon exportation of munitions...
What this formless interlude in French upper-middle-class family life has got is a characteristic, plush-lined Gilbert Miller production and a fine cast of actors. Chief among them is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, never before seen on a U. S. stage. An exponent of the feather-touch, as the timid, pale grey little Parisian father, his gentle intonations and delicate gestures seem to indicate that he is afraid that grosser activity might jar him loose from the stage and send him floating up in the flies. In direct contrast to Sir Cedric's placidity is Irene Browne...
...little fruit fly made famous by the genetic researches of Thomas Hunt Morgan. Many a geneticist suspects that the impacts of cosmic rays also start mutations working in the germ plasm. When the National Geographic Society's balloon Explorer II made its record-breaking flight into the upper air last year, Dr. Victor Jollos of the University of Wisconsin sent jars of fruit flies up with it, outside the gondola. The insects died of cold, but offspring hatched from eggs laid during the flight developed five times the normal number of mutations. Dr. Jollos concluded that some of these...