Word: tops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Used though they are to their private brand of internal politics, Army men are taught to expect at least a show of decent order at the top. The indecent disorder at the top of the War Department improved neither their morale nor their respect for civilian democracy. Two years between his upper and nether bosses brought Chief of Staff Malin Craig near to distraction and collapse before he got out last June and turned his cross over to brilliant, patient General George Catlett Marshall...
...service, the ambulance services (even one on the Thames), in the evacuation of more than 1,000,000 of the defenseless from the danger areas of London, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester to places of greater safety. For in a nation which, by the world's standards, already had top marks for humanitarianism, the war's first month produced an entire new order of social responsibility. The movement within a week of whole masses of people into thousands of other peoples' homes and schools and churches, Prime Minister Chamberlain described as "the greatest social experiment which England...
...situations that regularly occur in the average high school. Framed into being caught giving a teacher a "hot-seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted by Betty Field, from the popularity kid, played by one James Corner...
...rates for the Bureau's work of supervision and tutoring have already been announced, with a top of $2.50 an hour for the latter and no charge for generally over-seeing a student's work in a course. Charges will be put on the term-bill unless the student specifies otherwise...
...face of the two great West Coast crows, California and Washington, who went into their seasons last year with relatively green outfits, partially through necessity and partially through the hope of building up an Olympic crew. Now the climax of the coming season is nonexistent, and these two top notch crews are apt to suffer from anticlimax all through the year...