Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Symbol of Mother Britain's mighty and today successful struggle to get the upper hand of depression and unemployment, the Royal Mail Steamer Queen Mary, newest pride of the Cunard White Star Line and of the Empire, arrived this week in Manhattan, majestic amid bedlam. The droning, diving, zooming air planes; the squirting fireboats and shrilling sirens were to quietly delighted Britons the perfect foil for what every child in the Empire has been taught for months to call "The Stateliest Ship In Being...
Beat The French! The Cunard White Star Line and upper class Britons generally deplored any suggestion that there might be a transatlantic record beaten, but everywhere among Britain's lower classes sailing day brought candid remarks by millions that "she'll beat the French!" In Paris and in London, confident booking clerks assured Queen Mary passengers that, leaving Southampton on Wednesday afternoon, she would dock in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon (four days). Aboard the ship sailed scores of passengers with tourist-agency coupons commencing in Manhattan with dinner on Sunday night...
...well, was also a cause for much discussion, and tests were made of the well water by the College. These tests showed that the water was not pure enough to risk infection by users of the pump. So present plans are to sink a tank in the upper part of the old well, which will be filled by the less historic but purer water from the City mains...
...Latin mola) in the womb, caused by an ovum which started to become a baby but failed; 2) a pigmented spot (Anglo-Saxon mael) in the skin. According to Dr. Affleck, Mole No. 2 "may occur anywhere on the surface of the body, in the mucous membranes of the upper and lower ends of the digestive tube, and in the eye." It may be covered with coarse hairs. In color it ranges from light brown to black. Color is due to a pigment called melanin...
...exuberance and held up traffic for an hour--between 5 and 6 o'clock--while they poured a water barrage down on any unlucky passer-by. Lowell and Leverett Houses concentrated on the lower end of Plympton street, while the two divisions of Adams House took care of the upper end. Col. Apted collected more than 40 bursar's cards; the Cambridge police threatened prosecution for four students caught with water pistols...