Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Psychological tests showed a rather significant association of high gullibility scores with complaints of upper respiratory illness," said Dr. Huebner. "Our findings indicate that susceptibility to suggestion represents a more powerful inciter to 'runny' noses than any virus which we have as yet discovered." Dr. Huebner noted that a smaller ratio of workers pile up most of the absenteeism laid to colds. Also, colds are commonest on Monday mornings. "Perhaps there is a 'Monday morning' virus." said Dr. Huebner, "but I wonder whether it could be grown even with modern tissue cultures or that miracle drugs...
...from 21 ft.), enable the waterway to take deep-draft ocean-going ships of up to 10,000 tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest to the globe-girdling ships that will use the new St. Lawrence Seaway. Said Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker: "The final assault is being begun upon the barriers to the free flow of waterborne trade among the ports of the Great Lakes and those of the seven seas...
...jazz pianist, had abandoned Wilma Montesi to the waves while she was stupefied by drugs. The fact that the police had at first declared her death accidental was attributed to pressure brought to bear by Ugo Montagna, a bogus Sicilian marquis of inexplicable wealth and impressive contacts among the upper reaches of the Christian Democratic Party...
Black issues an edict: the illegal O, whether upper or lower case, must vanish from the language. Doctor becomes dctr, books are bks, clockshop, clckshp; saying cockadoodledoo aloud would be tantamount to fomenting rebellion. The docile natives of Ooroo, now renamed "R," try hard to talk the new gibberish. A by tells a girl she sings like a chir of riles, and gets slapped. Lads studying Igic at schl recite: "Mist is always mist, but what is mist isn't always mist.'' Peple can n Inger tell rot from root. Babies make as much sense as their...
Harvard has traditionally held a place of leadership among Eastern universities in wage rates. "Every term in our contract hasn't always been better than others'," notes John Teele, "but we've consistently been on the upper edge...