Word: uppers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...once buzzing sawmill town of Gladstone, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, lumberjacks last week played at their favorite sport, birling. It was the first national birling championship in three years...
This week Winston Churchill put a new general in command of Britain's vital and much-criticized battle of production on the home front. From the Ministry of State to the Ministry of Supply he moved dynamic, able, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, who proved himself an able pepper-upper as Minister for Aircraft Production...
...Although 27 is the upper age limit for new Army fliers, the doctors claim that "the older a pilot gets the safer he becomes, up to about the age of 38, and that he then maintains that degree of safety as long as he maintains the required degree of fitness ... up to about...
Died. Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, for 24 days U.S. Senator from Texas; in Baltimore. Appointed to fill the unexpired term of the late Dry Morris Sheppard, he was the oldest newcomer ever seated in the upper house. His father was the great Sam Houston, first and third President of the Lone Star Republic, hero of San Jacinto, one of the first two U.S. Senators from Texas. The lives of father and son spanned all but the first four years of U.S. history...
...objection: contraterrene material zooming earthward would unite with air, "releasing energy such that a gram of meteorite and air would produce an explosion equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of nitroglycerin. Obviously a meteorite made of contraterrene material would be blown to bits . . . high in the upper air. So the assumption ... is impossible...