Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans feared a breakthrough most in the north, but they could not bolster the north by leaving the Saar and the upper Rhine uncovered. They could not stand a rupture anywhere, because of the scarcity of reserves and the difficulty of moving them under the merciless Allied bombing...
Three months ago an Allied arrival in force on this stretch of the Rhine would have produced the maximum of Nazi consternation. Now, the heavy Allied concentrations at the fulcrum of the whole attack in the west-the Cologne-Duisburg sector -reduced the French arrival on the upper Rhine almost to the status of a diversion...
Shut Up. Bernard Haggin, an angular musical zealot who looks a decade younger than his 44 years, has been a New Yorker from his lower East Side boyhood, through the College of the City of New York, to his present upper West Side hideaway. There he keeps a super-phonograph, whose sensitive entrails are always getting out of whack, and a Mason & Hamlin, which he has been known to play for bosom friends. On paper he has no facility whatever, but by main strength has made himself a writer of exceptional pith and clarity (Music On Records, A Book...
...Caesarean section under spinal anesthesia-a feat unique in medical history. The operation was done six weeks before the normal birth date because the doctors thought that waiting would endanger the lives both of the mother and her brood. The obstetrician in charge: Dr. John Calvin Ullery of Upper Darby...
...month ago the apple growers, of central Washington faced disaster. Ideal weather in the vast, irrigated Wenatchee, Yakima and Upper Columbia River valleys had brought them their fifth biggest apple crop. With a minimum ceiling for growers ($2.75 a box as against the 1939 top of $1.25), this whopping crop would net them their biggest gross in history...