Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibit No. 1 was Chagall's 5½ ft. by 10 ft. Revolution, which was having its first showing. Gallerygoers, who clustered around this movable mural, saw Artist Chagall's mystical interpretation of what is going on in the world. Out of its upper right hand corner shaggy-haired Chagall gazed poker-faced at the weird doings below...
...observations are perceptive and practical. The book is infinitely detailed, as if Mrs. Harriman, a woman of firm grip and general sensibility, had found over the years that most Americans are fuzzy-minded, bewildered, perhaps even dopey. For instance, she tells how to get a stepladder for an upper berth: "Ring for the porter and he will bring one." How to mind your own business: "If a friend receives a personal telephone call, never attempt to hear what she is talking about...
...other quarter-final in the upper bracket, Hugh Hyde, tall red-head who ranks high on the Varsity team, will meet up with another player built on the lines of Bill Tilden. He is Mal Moley, a lanky Freshman from california...
...public normally could spend on consumers goods are 18 billion dollars threatening to whirl the country into an inflationary spiral. It was part of this amount that the treasury hoped to get, or discourage from exchange with its ill-fated spendings-tax. And lastly, the largest revenue groups, the upper two-thirds income brackets, have not been taxed to their capacity. But a married man earning only$12 a week, no matter how many children he may have, most pay a 5 per cent tax on his entire income with no deductions of any kind. He pays the same...
...last of the weary upperclassmen, figures should show a rise of 67 men over last year's total, bringing the enrollment of the College up to 3580. The bulk of this increase, however, will be in the huge Freshman class, as war hits the ranks of the upper classes...