Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Upper Seventh Admitted...
...Author Meeker's credit he handles these somewhat Suetonian materials not only without playing them up for the salacious trade, but so firmly that they become a social and human document, richly textured with quotidian details of housekeeping, matchmaking, small-talk and general upper-class living. Even the glimpses of Court, of battle, of provincial life, have little of the quality of set pieces, much of the taste of immediacy. Few historical novels do as much...
...Herbert Ames, K.T., will speak at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Upper Common Room of the Union on the training of Canadian pilots. The talk is entitled "The Beaver Has Wings...
...game marked by ragged play on both sides the Varsity hockey team disposed of Williams 7 to 1 in the Boston Skating Club last night. Harvard seized the initiative at the opening whistle and held the upper hand throughout the game...
...unless the chair is a pilot's seat (he has 15,000 solo hours). So first he married Olive Ann, then he quit Curtiss to organize Beech Aircraft in 1932. His first break came when he startled the industry with his "reverse stagger" biplane (lower wing ahead of upper). Called unairworthy at the time, Beech biplanes are still the only single-engined private craft able to do 250 m.p.h...