Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questionable returns, it is particularly encouraging to read of relatively modest emergency appropriations paying three-fold dividends. In 1932, Harvard College established The Temporary Student Employment Plan, under which the sum of $40,000 is set aside annually to give employment in various departments of the University to needy upper classmen. The figures just released by the Student Employment Office show that 255 men earned an average of $147 during the first year of operation of the Plan. Last year 206 men averaged more than $200 each...
...regards your review of Belle of the Nineties (TIME, Sept. 24, Cinema), you fail to mention body-padding on the parts of anyone else in the cast other than Miss West. How about Miss Katherine DeMille, whose upper torso throughout the entire film is something incredible, certainly too good to be true? Are these portions of the young woman's figure actually as wonderful as depicted or are they, for the most part, just a physiological hoax? Even a hoax of such proportions ought to be TIME-worthy...
Dame Sybil in The Distaff Side is the keystone of an upper middle-class family of women. To her ancient and churlish mother (Mildred Natwick) she shows unremitting forbearance. To her fretful and uncertain sisters and daughter she imparts a philosophy distilled from long and loving communion with her late husband. One by one problems are solved. The daughter (Viola Keats) leaves the man who can further her ambitions for the man she loves. One sister (Estelle Wynwood) foregoes an unseemly dalliance, returns to the old romance that time has almost staled. The other sister (Viola Roache) finds it easier...
...Bacchanalian orgy of July, 1933, the liquor stocks again show promise. The old drinker's advice to "take a little of the hair of the dog that bit you" may prove profitable, especially Distillers and Schenley. Other good bets are Chrysler and Harvester. Among the rails, Atchison in the upper price range, and Southern Pacific and Southern Railway in the lower brackets look attractive...
...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...