Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effects of freezing weather and no whiskey have already evidenced themselves: within four days the population at Stillman has rocketed from 15 to 29. The Hygiene Department hoped that the peak of the grippe epidemic was over and consoled itself by chattering frigidly of "upper respiratory diseases...
Production began June 1. Nine hundred construction workers and mill hands crowded into the five rows of new grey clapboard bungalows "downstairs"by the mill. Another 1,000-workers, wives & children-moved into the .upper town, planted grass around their houses and dormitories...
According to a recent vote of the Faculty, a student in good standing, whether in Freshman or upper-class standing, who fails to attend his last class before or his first college exercise after the Christmas recess will not necessarily be placed on probation at that time provided his record is and remains satisfactory. All absences before and after the holidays will, however, be especially carefully scrutinized by the Dean's Office, and if there is evidence of abuse, appropriate disciplinary action will be taken...
...Alinda Bay. With the aid of paratroopers they occupied the narrow neck of land where the sea almost cuts the island in two. The British counterattacked. For a while they seemed to be gaining. So, at 4 p.m. of the fifth day, said the Leros radio, with a British upper lip. At 5 p.m. it went off the air. Leros had fallen. The defenders were captured or escaped to Samos, where the Germans shortly announced fresh attacks to root out the last British force in the Aegean. This week they claimed its capture...
...chill hours before dawn, hundreds of steam and motor boats crept out over the star-sprinkled swells of the upper Great Lakes. They chugged past dim, pine-spiked shores until the sky greyed into day and the wheelmen could pick out the flag-topped buoys that marked their submerged nets. The craft drifted silently to a stop in the icy, crystal water...