Word: uprighteous
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...impossible to imagine three more upright and sportsmanlike men than Professor Kennedy, Mr. Bingham, and Mr. Cates, but in their positions they necessarily represent a point of view which is not that of the undergraduates, for whom athletics are really intended. If three such leaders cannot avoid directing college sport into its present impasse, if they are unable to see eye to eye--and there is no good in pretending they are--may it not be time for a complete change in the administering of our collegiate sports? And may the solution not be to turn the problem over...
Many a strange and wonderful thing happens in California. When the Sacramento River near Rio Vista?40 mi. northeast of Oakland?receded fortnight ago, the headless body of a young Hindu was found sitting bolt upright, chained to a tractor wheel. He was identified as Sant Ram Pande, 32, engineering student at the University of California. The method of his identification was remarkable. Only three weeks prior he had insisted that his fingerprints be recorded by the State Bureau of Criminal Identification. He had then set out to find the slayers of 13 Hindus who have been murdered...
...then he sat almost upright, bent, however, on a bagatelle of introspection. What was wrong with himself? Wasn't he a gentleman? True, he did not twist puppy-dog tails, but then he had no poise. And what is one without the other? quotha. No, he wasn't a gentleman...
...abortive stub with upturned tips, affixed as on a low-wing monoplane, to provide lateral stability, to carry the ailerons and to provide a mounting for the undercarriage. The real supporting surfaces (i. e. wings) are embodied in four great rotating blades, or vanes, affixed to an upright tripod. It is this rotor that gives the ship its windmill appearance and that accounts for its amazing stability. Because the blades are turned not by the engine but simply by the wind induced by the ship's motion, the rotor is not a propeller, and the autogiro...
...internationally, in which Reporter Knickerbocker was star witness for the prosecution, M. Orloff was convicted of forgery, sentenced to jail. Rather surprisingly, Defense Attorney Walter Jaffe said of Witness Knickerbocker after the trial: "I shall never call his an agent provocateur again. I shall call him spiritus rectus: the Upright Spirit of the trial...