Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separate house and generally complicated politics. Georgia kept the arrangement for 12 years, Pennsylvania for 14, Vermont until 1836. But the example of the British Parliament and later the U. S. Constitution, with two houses, one more or less representative of the population by numbers, the other representing the upper classes and the interests of States, soon set the fashion for all State Legislatures...
...Good morning, 1937! I have seen many sunrises from above, but this is a fresh one. All kinds of color schemes are here, for the first of the newest day. The upper rim of this blazing sun is gold and yellow, right from the start. The air is crystal clear. Am I imagining? Maybe. Maybe not. Altitude does funny things to people. Some laugh foolishly. Some get cracky, with as little reason. What does it do to me? I don't know. My mind is inside itself and can't see its image without some kind...
Across the upper part of the moon's disk one night last week flitted a ruddy shadow, tilted about eight degrees to the east. It was an appulse of the moon, visible in most of North America and parts of Europe. Associated Press's Science Editor Howard Blakeslee compared the sight to "a bandit with a dark cap drawn down over his forehead...
...three weeks ago two New Jersey troopers appeared at a police station in Manhattan's upper West Side, reported that a repair bill from a nearby garage had been found in the kidnappers' abandoned automobile. Police promptly notified local G-men, offered to cooperate with them on the case. The G-men preferred to work alone. New York City detectives and New Jersey troopers then discovered that Brunette had lately married a resident of upper Broadway, set a watch on her family's house. At this point, according to police, the G-men offered to join forces...
Rosemary girls are divided into a lower school with 126 pupils, an upper school with 102. They work so hard at Latin under Miss Ruutz-Rees and English under Miss Lowndes that when they get to Smith or Vassar it is often with a sigh of relief. "Ten bar girls," who have served ten terms in the student government, are Duces, and the girl voted outstanding in each graduating class is an Optima. Both Optimae and Duces have their names carved in oak panels in the dining hall. Girls are subject to constant British roll calls to which they answer...