Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau's reading course does not count for credit and costs $15. After approximately 15 class meetings, the average student rises from the lower quarter of his class to the upper quarter in performance on reading tests. Perry and Wilcox caution, however, that the skimming methods taught in the course are best suited only to general expository material...
Says he: "As it is now, 2,200 people a year see that park. On the other hand, more than 3,000,000 people live in the Upper Colorado Basin states and they are hungry for water. Which is more important?" The Upper Colorado Basin includes 110,000 square miles of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming. New Mexico and Arizona (the Upper and Lower Basin are defined in a seven-state compact signed in 1922, with the dividing line at Lee Ferry, Ariz...
More than 43 million acres-an area larger than the six New England states combined-are already given over to public recreational use (the Federal Government owns 72% of all the land in Utah and 52% of Wyoming). Some 70% of the farming in the Upper Basin depends on irrigation but only a small portion of the land is irrigated. The Upper Basin is a treasure house: lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal, oil-and now, uranium. But the water is not to be had for full development of these resources...
Washington intelligence estimated the attacking force at regimental strength (which would be 2,500 on the Chinese scale). They heavily outnumbered and soon overwhelmed the Nationalists. At dusk, the big Nationalist garrison on Upper Tachen, eight miles away, could still hear machine-gun fire. But later in the night silence fell on Yikiang. Next day the triumphant Reds sent 100 planes to bomb the Tachens-one of the largest raids of the island...
...already sketching at three, soon painted spiders that scared the servant girls. At ten he was exhibiting at the Royal Academy. Beginning at 14, Morland went through seven years of training. He was apprenticed to his father, a twice bankrupt painter and art dealer, locked in an upper room turning out copies of English and Dutch masterpieces which his father sometimes foisted off as originals. But while still a fuzzless youth, Morland started drinking. To keep himself supplied with gin, young Morland secretly painted sexy love scenes, lowered them on a string to a confederate to be sold...