Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unconscious boy's head was twisted so that his right temple lay uppermost. Two quick, accurate, preplanned incisions. A thin-lined six-inch triangle showed faintly. This the surgeon peeled back and let the flap lie out of the way. Then into the skull bone with the saw. Slow, careful rasping. A six-inch triangle lay loose, like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass...
...estate tax, with a personal exemption of $100,000, was agreed on. So the joint conference finally gave birth to the third tax reduction bill of the season?a compromise in which all shades of political affiliations were represented, but in which the tax views of the Administration appear uppermost...
...Harvard CRIMSON is that "it brings nearer the day when (all) Harvard undergraduates (except freshmen) will rightfully be regarded as conscientious students, interested in their own scholastic welfare and hence competent to regulate their own attendance at college classes." Probably this is the goal which the Harvard authorities had uppermost in mind when they made the new grant, and unquestionably it is one of the ends which the grant will serve. The change promotes emphasis upon the undergraduate's own desire to gain real values from his college career, with diminishing stress on the notion that he must be forcibly...
Julian Lowell Coolidge '95, Professor of Mathematics in the University, answers the question, uppermost in the mind of the Harvard graduate unmercifully harrassed with Class Gift and Endowment. "What sort of an institution is this anyway? How good a college have they got there in Cambridge? How does is compare with that college which we knew or thought we knew so well when we graduated, thirty years...
...dedicated forever as pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of all the people. This statement is carved in eternal stone at the head of the great basaltic gateway here at the north entrance, and the words, 'For the benefit and enjoyment of the people,' are uppermost in the thoughts of those charged with the administration of the Yellowstone...