Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great choral concert, with singers from every section of Philadelphia society. His grandiose plan, which fizzled, was to anneal all social disparities through the use of "solfa," the powerful archaic open scale which artisans and farmers still knew from the Middle Ages, but which the musically literate upper classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing...
...good many from last year's Freshmen and upperclassmen have turned out at one time or another, but there has been no attempt to make up any boats. Tommy Boynton, last year's Varsity cox has been in charge of all the upper class boats but most of the time he has just lined them up in shells and sent them out for an informal workout...
...Maritime Commission was sick too, but the Commission kept a stiff upper lip. Existing ways, it insisted, are doing so much better than anyone had dared hope that the President's huge merchant-ship program will still be more than met. Right now, U.S. shipyards are producing six to eight ships per way per year v. a planned output of only four to four and a half ships. That would be fine except that still more ships are needed-more than ever...
...case of Fredric March was something else again. Silvery glory went to his head, to his upper lip, to his eyebrows, transformed him into the most reasonable facsimile of Samuel Langhorne Clemens this side of Mark Twain...
Near the feathery upper end of the tubes, one sperm cell may be lucky enough to merge with an ovum or egg cell which has been discharged from the nearby ovaries. After this fortunate meeting, the fertilized egg then proceeds back through the tube into the uterus, and burrows into the uterine lining: baby is on its way. This process may be prevented by a number of disorders which occur about as often in husbands as in wives. Therefore Dr. Hamblen urges that men be examined as routinely as women...