Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the terms of orders emanating from University Hall all upper-story residents of "non-fireproof halls" are to appear to get instruction from the University Safety Patrol on how to undulate down the side of a buildings on hempen strands with flames flicking from windows enroute. The order fixes specific compulsory times for attendance but stresses that more precocious Yardlings will be permitted to put in extra time hanging around on the cables...
...probable starting lineup for Harvard in tonight's match will find wiry Howie Schless, who holds down a first-string position even though the muscles of his upper right arm were shot away in the war, at the 121-pound class. At 128 Phil Busby is scheduled to grapple if he has recovered from injuries. Walter Perry will...
Undergrads, Upper Classes. In the readership polls Caniff seldom beats out Ham Fisher's hammy Joe Palooka or Chic Young's just-folksy Blondie. But his comparatively small (31 million) audience is, comparatively speaking, a class audience. It includes collegians (from Harvard to Siwash) and their professors, the Duke of Windsor, Margaret Truman, John Steinbeck†- and, significantly, hundreds of newspaper executives. Two years ago, when a score of syndicate salesmen began to spread the word of a new, as yet unnamed and undrawn comic by Caniff, they had nothing to sell but Caniff's name...
...Conway, Hannes Shneider and company have been losing a lot of good base wax on a breakable crust, hiding 25 to 28 inches of snow, during the past week. Forecasted flurries in the higher elevations should leaven the lumps on the upper part of the trails and the threatened cold wave may pack and settle the lower snow fields by the time the weekend rolls around...
...Nazis, he refuses to let it reopen. Benckendorff now gets Bruce to use pull, but Woodruff overrides him. Finally, Benckendorff has his son-in-law start a riot in the town, hoping it will bring about Woodruff's removal. But Woodruff quashes it and manages to keep the upper hand...