Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provide the College with "the other side of the question," the Harvard Conservative League, constituting a counter-movement to the Harvard Liberal Union, field its first meeting Wednesday at 7:48 o'clock in the Adams Upper Common Room, with over 30 men attending...
Bing Crosby, in England on a U.S.O. tour, was mobbed by London admirers. He escaped into a restaurant, appeared in an upper window, stopped all traffic by singing Pennies from Heaven...
...Compos-A-Tune ($3) is an 18 in. by 7 in. cardboard rectangle with 16 twirlable dials arranged in two rows. On the upper eight dials the operator sets any rhythm scheme desired (from countless possible combinations) for the first eight bars of a tune. By twirling the bottom eight dials, and following the directions on them, he then discovers a suitable harmonic progression for the eight bars. Next, by consulting a table on the Compos-A-Tune, he learns what melodic notes harmonize with the chord progression, and can lay out a melody in the rhythm shown...
Professor Ralph P. Boas, Jr. '33 will deliver a lecture to the Harvard Mathematics Club tomorrow evening at the Adams House Upper Common Room. He will speak on "The Mathematical Theory of International Politics...
...Westward, Poland must expand to include "ancient Pomorze [Pomerania], Upper Silesia, East Prussia, with its broad outlet to the sea, and Polish outposts on the Oder." No plan for German dismemberment had gone as far as this: it would lop from prewar Germany a large (roughly 26,000 sq. mi.),populous (about 6,500,000), rich (coal and iron mines, farm lands) territory, most of which had not belonged to the Slavs since the 11th Century. It would push Poland's border to within 50 miles of Berlin...