Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lighting fixtures. If Harvard athletics is to gain local support without incurring the wrath of its best fans, some plan akin to the cheering-section arrangement should be worked out. A single block of seats, located along the side of the court and stretching from the floor to the upper sections would satisfy both spectators and Garden officials. The present scale of prices could be continued and students could enjoy a Harvard basketball game minus a few of the inconveniences of big-league Stadiumitis...
Their first assistant was Edgar Allan Poe; their first book review was J. G. Whittier's report (favorable) on Longfellow's Evangeline. Willis and Morris crammed down the throats of "the upper 10,000" the new works of De Quincey, Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, Victor Hugo, Balzac, George Sand and anyone else they could buy or steal...
Sparks & Spaghetti. Archeologists had rounded up 75,000 specimens of Eskimo handiwork for the university, pieced together exhibits of prehistoric monsters. Campus scientists had collected important data for the Government on magnetism and the upper atmosphere, incidentally scotched an old sourdough's tale that the flashing northern lights set off sparks in their whiskers...
...deer season was at its height, hunters shot at everything that moved, including each other. In five days, 14 hunters were dead - five by gunshot wounds, nine by heart attack - and many another woods man was grazed by bullets. William Brown spent eight days in Michigan's upper peninsula, trying to get a shot at a deer; on the way home, he ran down and killed an eight-point buck with his automobile. At Boulder Junction, Wis., a rifle bullet crashed through a school bus and the trigger-happy hunter explained that he thought the white lettering...
What set him to wondering about the makeup of the upper level Commie leadership here during his period of Party membership after 1935 were, he explains, the shadowy figures under seemingly assumed names whom he gradually came to look upon as intermediaries with the USSR (one "Edwards" he feels to be the Gerhart Eisler now in the limelight...