Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With all aspects planned as in previous years, the only noticeable change will be that caused by the inclusion of uniformed Freshmen of the Navy V-12 Unit. Attended by a few upper-class Cliffe-dwellers and members of the PBH Cabinet, the affair is primarily designed as a welcoming meeting for newcomers to the Cambridge scene...
...gets my vote every time, except maybe when you spin a 1923 King Oliver or a 1925 Armstrong plater on your turntable. Which is as good a way as any to alienate your landlord, unless he, too, longs for the days when the New Orleans-in-Chicago Soicety of Upper State Street held regular meetings with the Cook County Choral Conclave and Jubilee Singers, better known as the Chicago Rhythm Kings...
...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
Meteorologists are sure that under ordinary conditions it is impossible to duplicate the natural forces that make rain. But Table Mountain's "cloth" is not an ordinary cloud. Created by a wet south easter that constantly blows against the upper slopes of the mountain, the cloud, spilling over the mountainsides, is so moist that water drips from the trees and bushes it envelops, and rainfall high on the mountain averages up to 72 inches a year...
...Zealand's House is its lawmaking body. Its Upper House is honorary and advisory...