Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football.* Not because Columbia had thrashed Princeton last year for the second time in their 15 games together. But because last week's result would largely decide whether Princeton, which had not won a major game since 1928, was really on its way back to the upper crust of Eastern football. In early season games Princeton had looked surprisingly powerful, but had yet to be acid-tested. What Columbia's Coach Lou Little feared most was Princeton's prodigious army of reserves, many of them sophomores from last year's undefeated freshman team. His strategy...
...comedians, however, she cannot always be content to raise a laugh. Though she cannot refrain from tearing her butterflies apart, sometimes she does it with a savagely sentimental reluctance. The stories in her latest collection illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while she takes contemptuous kindness as if it were not contempt. A cast-off inamorata soliloquizes in a taxi. Friends of the family are puzzled when a Perfect Couple, long married, split up for the valid but private reasons that he cannot stand her long fingernails...
...meeting for men interested in photography to be held in Adams House upper common room tonight, Carl E. Barnes 4G, an expert in photography, who has done both research and professional work, will give a talk on the "History of Photography." Henry E. Bent, assistant professor of Chemistry, will preside at this first meeting...
Coach Peroy anticipates an active year for the Harvard teams. Twenty-two Freshmen are working out at least three times a week in the fencing room, while 17 upper classmen report for practice. The team is to be built around John G. Hurd '34, captain, an excellent foilman...
...into his magniloquent mouth every time he opened it, his astonished acquaintances came to the conclusion that he had quietly entered his dotage. They attributed his condition to one of two things: worry over losing his and his wife's fortune (as has many another Irish family) in upper Broadway property; or, the strain which his celebrated 95,000-word decision on the Erlanger common-law marriage case put upon him (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). In any case, informed Tammanyites believe, Boss Curry will pay for his stupidity in running O'Brien a second time. Only "Com-missioner...