Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious alternative to this is Fascist dictatorship, the upper classes dominating the lower. Mussolini's black shirts represent this, though nationalism and post-war collapse confused the issue somewhat, and it is this toward which Hitler is tending...
Officially confirming the inauguration of a policy unprecedented in its history, the Student Council voted in effect last night to appropriate $1800 of the 1933-34 general receipts for the immediate establishment and maintenance of a variable number of scholarships and aids for members of the three upper classes, to be awarded on the basis of "scholarship, character, and good citizenship." The outstanding features of the awards are that they will be made upon the basis of extracurricular activity as well as academic accomplishment, and that Dean's List standing will not be an absolute prerequisite for them...
Awarded. To Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 72, Harvard and M. I. T. professor of electrical engineering famed for his pioneer description of the Kennelly-Heaviside layer (ionosphere in the upper atmosphere which presumably reflects radio waves): the Edison Medal, top electrical engineering award; by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, in Manhattan...
...price level is in a healthy position and there is therefore no need to depreciate the dollar to aid prices inside the United States, the whole problem of stabilization or future revaluation will thus be narrowed to the difference between 59.06 and 60 cents. These may become the true upper and lower limits and finally a fairly stable position somewhere between these two points may be attained...
...President's latest proclamation, therefore, may be hailed as a constructive step forward--a movement in the direction of real stablization, though it may take several months yet to find out whether Congress was right in setting the upper limit at 60 cents or whether the dollar is really worth more than is claimed for it here...