Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peerage of England, the illustrious Howards stand next to the Blood Royal. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk is empowered, as the hereditary Earl Marshal of England, to bear ''in the King's presence or absence" a golden staff, the upper part adorned with the arms of the Royal Family, the nether part with those of the Family of Howard. The great Duke of Norfolk is charged as Earl Marshal with the proclamation of a new King's accession, with the supervision of the funeral of a late King, of the Coronation of his successor...
Close to extinction except in a Zululand preserve and along the Upper Nile is the white (actually grey) rhinoceros. Only elephants are bigger than this creature. As long as 15 ft., very fast, agile and ferocious when angry, its charge is usually impotent because of its poor eyesight. Connoisseurs call the meat delicious...
Among the most important acquisitions last year was a shipment of about 3,000 plants from the Upper Great Lake Region of the United States, collected by Arthur S. Fease, professor of Latin at Harvard, assisted by Eugene C. Ogden, of Cambridge, graduate student at Harvard...
Apart from stitching a harelip (best done when a child is two to six weeks of age), and wiring a cleft palate (best done between the second and third year), Dr. Vaughan has devised a method of lengthening the soft palate so that it can effectively close the upper part of the throat, resulting in clear speech...
Robert J. H. Kiphuth has been worried by the problem of being able to see, from his place on the pool's brink, only the upper half of what Yale swimmers were doing in the water. To the problem of how the other half swims, Coach Kiphuth last week discov ered a solution. Photographers were on hand when he proudly emerged from the Yale pool after sitting on the bottom, coaching in a diving suit...