Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment of vertical flight, you gain two miles of altitude. Your ears are popping, and the gas belches out of your throat. At 40,000 feet you feel small and high. Mountains are wrinkles in green-and-brown cloth, and cities are patches of ragged wire screen. The upper altitudes are silent except for the slight singing hum of the whirling rotor behind...
Well aware of the overcrowding of U.S. colleges, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey had forehandedly set up three emergency colleges on abandoned Army & Navy sites to help handle the overflow.* And by last week the Associated Colleges of Upper New York had a faculty of 225 all signed up. The question was: would the faculty members have enough students to keep them busy...
...visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling the faithful to prayer (La Illaha Illa-Allah-There...
...novel-in which the inimitable Jeeves makes his umpteenth appearance-Pelham Grenville Wodehouse says of Jeeves's cuckoo-pated employer, Berty Wooster: "If there is one quality that distinguishes him, it is his ability to keep the lip stiff and upper and make the best of things. Though crushed to earth, as the expression is, he rises again-not absolutely in midseason form, perhaps, but perkier than you would expect and with an eye alert for silver linings...
Sandbars & Sioux. The typical upper-river sternwheeler, displacing perhaps 300 tons, drew a mere 20-to-30 inches of water, burned some 25 cords of hard wood a day. In emergencies, it could lift itself over shallows by means of special stilt-like spars poised on its bow. In the '70s, military as well as civilian passengers were carried, for there was increasing Indian trouble, much of it traceable to Chief Crazy Horse and his Ogalalla Sioux...