Word: upsala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Upsala College, East Orange, N. J., Naomi Sylvia Charner, vice president of Phi Omega Chi sorority, turned in her pin because the sorority had refused admission to a Negro student. Retorted a sorority sister: "It's only kindness to keep from pledging a Negro girl. After all, there are so many places Negroes can't go socially...
...worked as street-hawker, odd-job boy in a tin-plate factory, at a lumberyard, as a dispatcher, bartender, conjuror. He also painted scenery for Cavalcade, Victoria Regina, The Miracle and "practically all the best-known English and American shows between 1930 and 1939." Now he is lecturing in Upsala, Sweden...
Tech. 4th Grade Carl H. Gustafson was married in an evening ceremony at Montclair, N. J., to Miss Helen Doyle of East Orange. They met at Upsala College. Mrs. Gustafson is now living in Cambridge...
...About 115 to 120 boys are conceived for every 100 girls, but normally about 50% more male embryos are lost in miscarriages than female. Fewer children are born in wartime,* especially-suggests Biologist Gunner Dahlberg of Sweden's great Upsala University-to hard-working women, who are most likely to suffer miscarriages. This displacement is enough, he believes, to affect the boy-girl ratio...
...sixteenth-century book, a Latin tome on the history of the northern races by a Norse bishop called Olus Magnus, shows fighters on skis driving ski-less pike-men before them. But according to a Runic stone, a cut of which is on display in the exhibit, men of Upsala, Sweden, hunted on skis as early...