Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophomores overwhelmed the Freshmen, 45 to 16, in a scheduled interclass basketball league game yesterday afternoon at Hemenway Gymnasium. The contest was one sided from the start, with the second year players holding the upper hand throughout...
...balance, and after attaining a universal perspective of the situation. However, a careful investigation of the trend of history is hardly necessary, for during the past week, a significant illustration of the force of power has arisen. Premier Mussolini, in attacking the "intolerable interference" of Austria in the Upper Adige, or Italian Tyrol, is voicing the assurance of a nation which feels capable of enforcing its own policy and protecting its own boundaries and at the same time is on the point of sacrificing the principles of justice for those of force...
...miles away, on Rodriguez Island near Madagascar, its sound roared four hours after the happening. In South America, 10,000 miles away, the tide was raised. Waves around the East Indies archipelago were 100 ft. high and went 400 miles an hour. Volcanic dust blew 20 miles high; swift upper winds carried the dust around the earth in 20 days. Sunlight was murky; sunsets were apocalyptic...
...curious twist to the usual older-younger generation quarrel reveals itself here. The present upper-classmen apparently form the party of the right in the controversy on smoking; and they, in no uncertain terms, reprimanded the alumnae whose visits to college are signaled by clouds of smoke hovering around the sorority houses. The conservative Juniors and Seniors complained, too, that the alumnae give incoming students a false impression, and lead the young to over-indulgence in the vice of tobacco. They cited evidence to show that college women are losing their health because of smoking. No doubt they gave graphic...
...that, as champion orator of the Anti-Saloon League and loyal defender of the "Ohio Gang," he could count on Ohio's farmers, small-townsmen and patronage-seekers, and on big, semidry, well-organized Cleveland. His campaign manager, Col. Carmi Thompson of Cleveland, was thought to have thrilled upper Ohio, if not the whole continent, by announcing that the Willis Will-to-Win was "a pulsing, throbbing movement that is hourly gaining force throughout the country...