Word: upward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Owing to the multiplicity of drives and to the upward trend of prices, it is very possible Greater Boston's quota will be hard to fill. But of Harvard a surplus can reasonably be expected, thereby neutralizing to some small extent the deficiency in other localities. Again Harvard is called upon to aid a national good. Again it must rise to the occasion...
...reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department will initiate the first upward push of our tardy development...
...Newton Constabulary, an infantry unit, voluntarily joined to the State Guard in a body, holds its identity by maintaining a distinct organization, similar to the Motor Corps. It is made up of business and professional men from Newton, 18 years of age and upward...
...choosing Bennett, I have not over-looked Abbot, of Harvard, whose work in an ordinary year would entitle him to a place on the first team, but whose baseball training proved a handicap when compared to Bennett, as it made him prone to a certain awkward and upward stretch of the right arm, doubtless the result of reaching up after high drives during the baseball season, and in view of this slight technicality, I have felt that Bennett, whose double arm reach and sternum stretch is without flaw in its symmetry, deserves the precedence. --Michigan Daily...
...strength record has taken frequent jumps upward in the last four years during which time it has been broken successively by Leslie, Hardwick, Davies, Percy, and finally Wright...