Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great river Yangtze, last week into the very heart of "Chinese Communist" territory. Since he traveled on a U. S. warboat, the Senator was effusively greeted at Hankow by the "Communist" Foreign Minister Eugene Chen (TIME, Jan. 24). Later Mr. Bingham pushed on to Ichang, in the extreme upper reaches of the Yangtze...
This small passenger sat with tight shut eyes as Major di Bernardi gave his ship the "gun," sent it roaring down the field, pulled back his joy stick, took off in a flashing swoop. Then, amid the calm speed of upper air strata, the eyes of passenger Vittorio Mussolini, 11, son of II Duce, opened. Regaining his composure he, later, peeped and peered over the edge of his cockpit, at Italia, far below...
Tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock, as the sinking sun sends its rays across the upper waters of the Thames, the Harvard University crew will leave its Red Top boathouse and paddle to the starting line with its prospects for victory over Yale brighter than those of any Harvard crew since...
Reservoirs. A system of reservoirs in the upper reaches of streams tributary to the Mississippi would, it is claimed, absorb the spring overflow of these streams, thus catching the floods at an early stage and eliminating them. Such a system would, however, be tremendously expensive (Dayton, Ohio, alone spent $30,000,000 on a reservoir project after the 1913 Dayton Flood), and would not affect rain-swollen streams at points below the reservoir sites...
...department will, be divided into two sections, it has been announced. The first will be a bureau of appointments carried on in large measure as it is now constituted. The second division will be devoted to assisting in the orientation of Freshmen in the choice of their upper school, discussing with students the election of courses and a career, and collecting data to aid the Board of Admission in solving problems related to the method of selecting students and in general assembling information that will be helpful in vocational guidance and in the placement of Seniors...