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Word: upper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflict between the two studies has caused a stir not only in academic circles but also in the upper levels of the Carter administration...

Author: By Angela M. Belgrove, | Title: Harvard Professor Surprised by Controversy Sparked by Studies of U.S. Business Profits | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...with which to push off the ground, thus increasing the distance over which the force can be applied." The same general rules, Metheny found, applied to blacks' arms: on the average, blacks' hands are larger than those of whites, their arms longer, and a short, heavily muscled upper arm propels a long lower arm. Once more, the combination of leverage and musculature favors blacks in throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Black Dominance | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...four freshmen--Besnivick, Nancy Rose '80, Mortimer N. Sellers '80, and Robert Wares '80--will serve as the sole undergraduates on the committee in the absence of any upper-class nominees...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Student CRR Representatives Draw Up Committee Reforms | 4/26/1977 | See Source »

...evening I arrived there, we drank ale out of large goblets and I watched Harriet light the kerosene lamps. I tried to picture the upper middle class high school cheerleader my cousin had married. I remembered his spacious Coral Gables house with its electronic gadgetry and heated swimming pool and compared it to the room I sat in, scented with burning wood and plump pork chops, sizzling in the old-fashioned black oven. The small wooden farm house had neither electricity nor running water. One room served as the living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry. A ladder...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: A California Eden | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...discovered in a formal pose just below her. Then the entire population of the village emerges from under the queen's matriarchal robes. It is also a nice touch to portray the native people (but not the leaders) with dancers and tuck the chorus away in an upper balcony. But, sad to say, all to little avail. William Bender

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pageantry of a Klutz's Mind | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

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