Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boys and girls in the upper teens are apparently committing more U.S. crimes. There were as yet no conclusive figures. But the nation's newspapers and police-station blotters were daily splashed with lurid ink about the deeds of the generation just too young to fight. Juvenile delinquency rose 10% last year in New York and Chicago, was up to 100% in war-boom towns. Case histories of last week...
Other executive titles were given to Richard G. Axt of Upper Marlboro, Md. and Kirkland House, and Robert A. Fisher of Birmingham, Mich, and Lowell House, who are to be secretary and treasurer respectively, while the rest of the ten-man committee was assigned to other duties in preparing for the 1946 dance...
...thoughtful, the conditions wise, and Japan's vitality and insistence be constantly in our minds." Here those who are familiar with Japan will think of one great lack in Dr. Eckstein's book. His acquaintance with the Japanese is largely confined to the urban middle and upper classes. Of the tremendous proletariat he knows and says little. Yet it is in these masses, if they are helped to liberal education, that the best hope probably lies. Readers who wish to learn something of what Dr. Eckstein, for all his great usefulness, is not equipped to tell, are referred...
...Haven Railroad's famed "The Kid in Upper 4." In simple but stirring rhetoric it made readers understand why trains are crowded-because The Kid, a soldier, is "our most honored guest...
Mind and Body. Years ago Wisconsin's stubby, pragmatic bon vivant, Philosopher Max Otto, stood on the bank of the upper Mississippi one Sunday sunset to ask himself again what force it was that prevented the technology of the modern world from being used to the greater happiness of the plain man. Afternoon darkened into evening ; the shining silver of the river blurred in the darkness; lights began to appear in the village...