Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles County likes to talk about its orange-juice joints, tabernacles, oil wells and graving docks, keep a stiff and silent upper lip over its floods and earthquakes. Nevertheless, to deal with such occasional unpleasantnesses, it has a Major Disaster Committee. Last week, just before Japan loosed its bombs on Pearl Harbor, an expanded version of this committee was preparing to grapple with the bigger unpleasantness of war. Now that it has to go into action, it is expected to do all right. Civilian Defense Chief Fiorello H. LaGuardia rates its setup "the first and best in the nation...
...permit greater freedom to the student in arranging his work while in Cambridge and also to avoid a complicated system of taking attendance in advanced courses at the time of vacations. The plan is in keeping with the recent tendency in the direction of placing students in the upper two years more largely on their own responsibility...
...Crimson team took more shots at the basket than its rivals, but its listless, over-confident attitude allowed the Cardinals to have the upper hand throughout the entire game...
There were still other unanswered questions: Was U.S. riveted armor as good as the riveted armor of the Germans? Whether it was or not, better was on the way. Last week American Locomotive Co. ran off its first medium with a cast-steel upper hull. All its surfaces are curved (to make shots glance off). It is also lighter, faster to build...
...rumpled man with cantilever mustach was giving the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships plenty to brood about. Greying William Starling Burgess, designer of America's Cup defenders (Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger), whipper-upper of the automobile-engined Sea Otter (TIME, Sept. 29), had turned up with another ship innovation...