Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is not the present theory. With a less number of associate and full professors than instructors and assistant professors, it is self-evident that few instructors will reach the upper brackets. The new administration is trying to tell every man when he comes up for reappointment or promotion what his chances are. If they are bad, he has an opportunity to look elsewhere while he is still an attractive catch...
...consomme, they talked hard & fast. Italy was determined to test her new army by a military campaign in Abyssinia. In normal times London and Paris would have no objection. As a matter of fact it would benefit both France and Britain to have Italy, instead of Japan, gain the upper hand in Africa's last independent empire. But these were not normal times. Abyssinia has been a member of the League of Nations in good standing since 1923. In addition, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie was daily proving a shrewder diplomat than anyone had suspected. He had appealed officially...
...natural break between sophomore and junior years. Up to that point in most topflight colleges the work is preponderantly general; beyond that point it is preponderantly specialized. At the University of Chicago, youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins has led the way by splitting his college in two, calling the upper half "Divisions...
Near the northern end of the Mohawk Valley at the gateway to the lake country of upper New York is Utica (pop. 100,000), maker of one-third of all the nation's knitted underwear. Remote from a metropolis, Utica society is nothing if not clubby. Rare is the matron who does not belong to one of the town's State-famed musical societies, garden clubs, welfare organizations...
...will find his prose comments more moving and less obscure. In them he complains, like all good Irishmen, of Ireland-thinks it a crying shame that the distinguished Irish Academy should have to meet in a hired room (five shillings a night), bewails the modern Irish spirit ("our upper class cares nothing for Ireland except as a place for sport . . . the rest of the population is drowned in religious and political fanaticism"), sees darker times ahead if mob rule is not broken ("our public life will move from violence to violence, or from violence to apathy, our Parliament disgrace...