Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undefeated thus far this season in intercollegiate competition, the Harvard Debate Council will be seeking its third straight victory when it meets an invading team from Williams tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
...Bricker handshake, and most of all, the deep Bricker platform voice, full of enthusiasm, platitudes and love of his fellow man, stirred crowds wherever he went. He was a man the people at whistle-stops could understand. He was the man for Fostoria, Ohio; for Shawnee, Hennessey, Pauls Valley, Upper Sandusky and Lower Salem. By the time he reached Oklahoma he was happily exhibiting two ten-gallon hats, a lariat, and a pair of spurs, gifts from the grateful citizenry en route. When a critic out front challenged his pronunciation he broke off and said: "Listen, I came...
...other southern and central Philippine Islands, furnish bases for U.S. planes to cut Japan's supply lines to the East Indies storehouses. Then they had picked for the main assault the spot on Leyte where their armor and fire power could be used most advantageously: the upper half of the eastern shore line which leads down into the fertile Leyte Valley...
...October, Pledge Soik was thoroughly fed up with "assuming the position" to be paddled, with being waked up at 3 a.m. for more of the same, with being especially singled out for hazing because he laughed at upper classmen's high jinks as juvenile mumbo-jumbo. He turned in his pledge pin, asked Dean Scott Goodnight for assignment to a dormitory room. The Dean questioned him closely, found that his fraternity elders had not only paddled him 27 times, but had made him bake himself at the fraternity hearth...
...Dewey had bridged the gap characteristically, organizing, organizing, organizing. Republican leaders, Senators, Congressmen, committeemen came to Albany in droves, state by state. Newsmen who covered him were bored to tears, but Republicans everywhere, although privately gloomy about his chances, were heartened by the stiffness of his mustached upper lip and cheered by his obvious determination to mobilize all the resources of the resurgent Republican Party...