Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here's another interesting one. Pickwick Started about three years ago to operate Observation-Dining cars along the California Coast High-Way, between San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. These stages now have upper decks, raised pilot houses for drivers, lavatory, radio, kitchen, and chef who prepares and serves hot meals while the cars are in motion...
Since nearly all members of the exclusive clubs where such betting took place are professed Church of Englanders, the hypothesis that all upper-crust Britons are congenital hypocrites may be said to have been strengthened...
...makes the Colonel's lady and her well known sparring partner sisters under their respective skins, so does a stroll along the banks of the Charles reveal things which one never thought possible in this dear Cambridge. On a hot day, such as was the rare fortune yesterday, the upper reaches of the limpid stream resembled the Lido and Bailey's Beach more than a dignified and usually deserted river. Young Cambridge and a liberal assortment of canines disported themselves in the intriguing and unanalyzed waters, making whoopee all around Stillman and transforming Lief Ericson's monument into an apparatus...
...five upper classmen who will now on the combination eight are C. N. Comstock '30, Edward Hamlin, Jr. '29, D. R. Kroell '29, J. S. Wintringham '30, and Roger Donaldson '30. The Freshman members of this crew are Lawrence Grinnell '31, J. F. Lawrence '31. E. L. Millard '31, and Richard Kimball '31, coxswain...
...European and American makes of barometers, thermometers, hygrometers, and wind instruments, to which are added sunshine recorders, instruments for recording night cloudiness, and improved types of nephoscopes for day observations. The results of the observations made with these instruments, together with the more important researches made in exploring the upper air, have been published in various volumes of the Harvard Observatory Annals...