Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JAMISON Upper Darby...
Home Secretary Sir John Anderson got a great reputation while he was Governor of Bengal (1932-37) for taking three attempts on his life with a stiff upper lip. After he was appointed to the Cabinet 14 months ago, he was bitterly criticized for the way he coordinated A. R. P., emergency transport, evacuation; but no one could say he was not a stout fellow under fire...
...enormous portions of South America there is no question whether animals or humans have the upper hand; no white man has ever moved there, and the Indians themselves hide from the insects, and cross the streams in fear. The world there, in human terms, is scarcely yet begun. The reader who cares to gain a smattering of what does live there, and how, can get an excellent layman's start with Naturalist Cutright's book...
Charles F. Brooks, director of the Meteorological Observatory, reported that from the University station on Blue Hill the observable phenomena included parhelic, a parhelic circle, a parhelion of 120 degrees, a circumzenithal are, an upper tangent are, and also the familiar 22 degree halo about...
...address on "Literature and the Left, 1929 to 1939" in the Upper Common Room of the Union last night, Hicks described the impact of recent political events upon American literature to a Freshman discussion group in American Civilization...