Word: uprighteous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence of my personal counsel, your statement is utterly false. May I be heard further? I have lived my whole life in this city. I was born here. I have lived an honorable and upright life. My life has been devoted principally to two defendants in this case, and you have used your official capacity to slander and vilify me. It is my opinion that you are a greater criminal than anyone that ever stood before your...
...cackled, "I hope I don't capsize the boat and drown everybody!" ¶ Sitting bolt upright on his bench St. Gandhi attempted to improve his mind by reading the full report of the first Indian Round Table Conference. Shrilly he protested that it invariably caused him to fall fast asleep...
...surface craft to cover. A Swedish radio station heard a faint "Hello, hello, hello" in English, but the plane was not seen again. Days later the crew of a trawler sighted the body of a man clad in life belt and what looked like aviator's clothing floating upright in the North Sea. In Cleveland President Edwin G. Thompson of Transamerican Airlines, sponsor of the projected air route, declared that Pilot Edward Preston would soon take off on a similar testflight...
...Mountains in southern Australia. The bone is the top of a female's skull. The hind part of the relic indicates that, from the rear, she looked like an ape with head canted slightly forward. She had very powerful neck muscles. Her walk was slouchy, but nonetheless habitually upright. Thus her hands were free and more nimble than an ape's. She probably could braid twigs, early step in the art which ends with fine embroidery. The front part of her skull looks more human than apish. She must have had a muzzle which, while more forward jutting...
...Colin interpreted the Jervois skull as confirmation of his old hypothesis that upright posture dominates intellectual activity, that the animal which eventually became a human being walked before it talked...