Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best football they have displayed this season, the Harvard Juniors yesterday defeated Yale's champion Sophomore team 13 to 0 on Soldiers Field. Coach E. S. Daniell '26, of the Crimson outfit, sent a smoothly, working team on the field that jumped into an early predominance and held the upper-hand throughout the contest...
...sixth captured by collectors in the past 35 years. The first shoebill stork ever brought to the U. S. arrived last month from upper Egypt (TiME, Oct. 18) in charge of his captor, Collector George H. Bistany, and was to tour the country's zoos...
Like sentient creatures, the Earth has its eyes in it upper† part, eyes which, like an owl's see best by night: telescopes. That is why the press contained more news of Mars last week than it did two and one half years ago when Mars, though eight million miles nearer Earth than last week, was more visible from Earth's southern hemisphere. There are no major telescopes in the southern hemisphere. With hollow clankings of their metallic optic muscles, the great, unblinking eyes slowly scoured the heavens, coming to focus on a bright disc, 1/76th...
...about 1806--more than a century after Yale had been founded in protest against the earlier unorthodoxy of Harvard--what was to become the Unitarian movement got the upper hand in control of the university. In the struggles of religious liberalism against orthodoxy that enlivened the beginnings of the nineteenth century the "Christ at Eclesiee" part of the motto was removed. Harvard was out for the truth no matter where...
...University is now prepared to meet the demand for club dining tables to the extent of providing facilities for 200 upper classmen...