Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overall cut. The Faculty assumed an increased burden of teaching. Tutorial work fell on fewer men and sections in larger courses increased. English A sections, for example, jumped to 30 students each. Meanwhile taxation's hand slipped more dollars from the professors' wallets. The Faculty falls neatly into the bracket whose income taxes have taken the biggest proportional leap. Nevertheless, in order to keep the expenses of an extended 12 weeks operation from being too high to allow anything but a very superficial offering of courses, they have decided to stretch their present incomes rather than restrict the scope...
Virtually all Morgan stockholders were identified with the company, were ex-Morgan partners or their families until this sale. The absence of a market for the stock was doubtless a hardship to more than one upper-bracket heir...
Miss Ferber's noisy, flashing manner never really gives you a period, but always makes you enjoy the fraud. Saratoga Trunk is so neatly made that the scenarists need only bracket the non-dialogue as stage direction, and call it a half-day's work...
Powered by the improved U.S. Allison (1,150 h.p.) engine, the Airacobra has a high speed in the 400-m.p.h. bracket, a 1,000-mile range equaled by few European single-engined fighters. Ahead in many ways of anything in the air, with its clean design and high aerodynamic efficiency, the Airacobra is likely to get bomber-escort jobs in its packet of missions. While Builder Larry Bell and U.S. air chiefs awaited further dope on the 'Cobras' performance, Britain's Airacobra pilots were anxiously waiting to get into a scrap that would supply...
...Freshman tourney, Zinnser is far ahead of anyone else. He won ove Caldwell in two straight sets, 6-3, 6-2, to reach the finals. Collinson and Eaton have reached the semi-final round in the other bracket...