Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall tournament for the tennis championship of the College progress of the lower bracket has proceeded to the semi-finals...
...Beamishly Mr. Chamberlain announced, and as his words were uttered they instantly became effective throughout Great Britain, that the nuisance tax on cheap cinema seats is no more, pay raises go to the Army, the Navy and the Civil Service, the tax on the first ?135 ($675) of lower-bracket incomes is cut from two shillings threepence to one and sixpence in the pound, exemptions for additional children are raised and taxes go up only on things like "heavy oil." In fine Chamberlain fettle, the Chancellor closed his budget amid laughter and cheers. "I do not claim that our methods...
...year, Baby LeRoy (It's a Gift), Frankie Thomas (Wednesday's Child), Georgie Breakstone (No Greater Glory), Jane Withers (Bright Eyes), Baby Jane (Imitation of Life), David Holt (You Belong to Me), Virginia Weidler (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Freddie Bartholomew (David Copperfield) have earned high-bracket incomes which will cease before they reach their adolescence. Carnival introduces the first baby-carriage Booth of 1935, a solemn, bun-faced 3-year-old named Dickie Walters. Since he is still comparatively inarticulate, Dickie Walters in Carnival is required to do little more than swallow cereal and retain...
Sargent best Ware by a score of 3-1 in the semi-finals of the lower bracket, and Glidden won in the upper bracket by defeating Ware...
...students who receive a rating under C will still be termed "unsatisfactory," while those in the upper bracket will be told that they are "satisfactory." However, fourth-year men will learn at this time each year into which third of the class they fall, for information of this sort is necessary when applying for an interne-ship...