Word: uprights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it necessary to warn upright and faithful children of the Church against the impious and nefarious character of Communism...
Like Death's beckoning fingers, two skis upright in a Greenland snow hummock last week signaled to searching Germans through the colored dawn of the returning midnight sun. Any unexplained man-made thing has awful import in the ice desert. The Germans clambered over the ridged ice to the skis, chopped them loose, chopped deeper into the frozen snow until they found the body of lost Professor Alfred Lothar Wegener. The body was carefully sewn within two blankets and covered with fur coats. The last chapter of Professor Wegener's career was clear...
...weather," was roaring. The German and the Eskimo leaned into the wind. The dogs kept their ears back and their bellies close to the ice. They got 40 mi. from the central station. Then Professor Wegener died. Rasmus carefully buried him and marked the grave with the upright skis. The finders of the body last week placed it on a sledge. Around and over the sledge they built a mausoleum of ice blocks. Then they went hunting for Rasmus. For a space his spoor was plain. From the grave he had wavered twelve miles toward the coast. He left...
...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...