Word: uprightness
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...black box rested on a stand. From its top projected a metal rod approximately twelve inches high; from its side projected a horizontal metal ring. Before the box stood a thin, blond Russian, Professor Leo Theremin of State Physical Institute of Leningrad. He placed his right hand near the upright rod; a musical note streamed from the box. He wiggled his right fingers; chords and phrases danced from the box. He moved his left hand towards the horizontal ring; the music roared deeply. He removed his left hand; the music whispered forth...
...halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan, as go-betweens (TIME, Dec. 19). Indignation flared last week when the names of the four Senators were published-Borah of Idaho (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee), LaFollette of Wisconsin (youngest Senator, upright Progressive), Norris of Nebraska (chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and Heflin of Alabama (who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope). Indignation flamed when Publisher Hearst admitted that he had given none of these Senators a chance to deny knowledge of the alleged efforts by Mexico to bribe them. Publisher...
...although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there is no nonsense about either them or him. In short, he is a typical product of Victorianism: ultraconservative, even to attending church regularly and dissecting the sermon at a heavy mid-day dinner, decorously genial, upright-no breath of scandal has ever touched his life-and painstakingly methodical...
...beats-mail needing re-addressing or "unknown" bumper-2nd to 4th class cancelling stamp burns-damaged tie sacks clock ("on the" and "off the")-On or off duty decoy-matter mailed to catch crooks graveyard shift-9 p. m. to 5 a. m. green goods-counterfeit money jug (roundhouse)-upright, semicircular case for periodicals logs (trunks)-heavy parcels Mother Hubbard-large sack for paper mail nixie-insufficient address pull-"to pull a case"-to take mail from it reds-registered matter skin the rack-to take bags from bag-rack for dispatch...
Evolution is a great thing. The monkey who swings by his tail and throws cocoanuts evolves into the man who walks upright and gets hit by the cocoanut; the callow Freshman evolves into the potent, grave, and reverend Senior; an Intercolleiate Dance evolves into a riot, and even music itself has evolved from the soft tinkling of rude strings to the raucous squawk of the saxaphone...