Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the Elcano, the two gunboats U. S. S. Monocacy and U. S. S. Palos which form the Upper Yangtze Patrol, will be released. These are coal and wood burners of the vintage of approximately 1910, and are so old that they navigate the rapids above Ichang with the greatest difficulty and danger...
...throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me a pair of her 'wings,' which I keep still. There is no appearance of a membrane about them...
Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School was the hero of an exciting episode in Kendall House yesterday noon. A short time before luncheon the Dean discovered the beginning of a conflagration on one of the upper stories of the building. After immediately telephoning the fire department, Dean Pound collected everyone in the building, and assisted in carrying out a large number of valuable law books. As soon as this was accomplished, he quietly sat down to lunch with the other members of the faculty, while the firemen were still extinguishing the flames above...
Then there must have been some mysterious protoplasmic revolution within him, for his New England blood took the upper hand. It suggested that he give up the livery stable for the law. He obeyed. At 21, he was admitted to the bar; at 24, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Shawnee County. Although backed by many a Wet, Mr. Curtis soon gave notice that he was a Dry, closed the saloons, was reelected. Later, he accumulated a comfortable little income as a criminal lawyer, and in 1893 was elected to Congress, where, except for two years, he has been ever...
There was a hush in the upper chamber as Senator William Cabell Bruce, Democrat, of Maryland, rose to speak. Only Vice President Dawes and Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, who was author and co-author of such controversial measures as the 18th Amendment and the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, were present to listen to him. His words, however, were not hushed;* they were put into the Congressional Record and spread about by the press of the land; and that is what Senator Bruce wanted...