Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first two University eights rowed on the upper Charles River yesterday afternoon for the last time before they leave for Red Top and the Yale Race which is scheduled for June...
...guarded by her sickly sister, the village spinster who envied youth and health and beauty, Adrienne was starved for drama. She could but set the stage-parlor furniture to dust in the morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer flowers filled her with longing, but her neighbor kept to himself. Adrienne tossed sleeplessly at night, traced listlessly the immutable pattern of her dull existence, suffered torments from...
...peculiarly true of human nature that "the more it changes, the more it's the same thing." Men used to call upon religion to support any system that was to their advantage. They had divine revelations about the place of women in society, the privileges of kings and upper classes, and so forth. But during the nineteenth century, in the Occident, the prestige of theology waned, while that of science increased. So now all the old prejudices are being refitted with imitation "scientific" bases. Some of them can still be kept up, although they are dangerously wabbly. Some are rather...
...cases can never be determined to the agreement of everybody concerned. Largely depending on the newspapers be reads, the American who interests himself at all in such matters can form an opinion only on grounds which are stoutly denied by the other side. Politicians and members of the enlightened upper crust of Filipino society make large claims of their ability to manage their own affairs, while the Administration forces maintain that the bulk of the people are not sufficiently advanced for such a move. Imperialism, no matter how a country begins upon it is a course that cannot be abandoned...
...trial regatta was held on the upper course between the Watertown Bridge and the curve above Gerry's Landing. At the start, the Ineligibles, stroked by L. D. Parker '30, were presented with a five length lead and the Seconds, paced by James Lawrence '29, with a two length handicap...