Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy had fallen to the Germans. Up & down the peninsula they heeded the Allied calls to sabotage Nazi movements. Along the coast they turned on lights at night to beckon British and U.S. landing parties. But by week's end the occupying Germans seemed to hold a firm upper hand over wide areas. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel proclaimed himself master of all Italy above the Spezia-Rimini line, imposed a "state of war," decreed death for "giving aid or assistance" to the Allies...
...Council received $1,490 from the Freshmen at registration July 1, when 54 percent of entering Freshmen paid dues for their first year at Harvard. Four hundred and seventy more dollars were collected from the upper classes...
...work of Jack Reichart in a master of ceremonies capacity was one of the more professional contributions of the evening, and H. F. Donaldson's piano renditions as a warmer-upper were really good. The squirrelly skit by C. E. Weilepp, C. J. Patterson and J. L. Vlahos was a gem in itself, and appreciated as such...
...Clouds have general upper and lower limits†: in middle latitudes the highest clouds are six or seven miles above sea level (because air gets no colder above that height); the lowest (except for fogs) are at about 2,000 ft. In thickness, a cloud may vary from a wafer (cirrus) to several miles (cumulonimbus...
When the crack New York-Buffalo Lackawanna Limited cracked up one night a fortnight ago in upper New York State, available reporters were as scarce as hen's teeth. How the United Press got the story of the wreck, in which 28 died in live steam, made a yarn for pressroom spinning. Seldom had improvised telephone coverage, which newspapers and news associations constantly use, turned out so successfully...