Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson Day dinners, she raised $250,000, kept at it doughtily during the campaign. Declared Louis Johnson, chairman of the Democratic Finance Committee: "When our crowd got discouraged, Perle Mesta would raise hell. She called us men of little faith. She was a tonic for us -our little pepper-upper...
Gootenburg also announced that Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, will lead an informal discussion with HLU and Radcliffe members of Students for Democratic Action at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Adams Upper Common Room. The topic will be "The Proposed North Atlantic Pact...
...original recommendations of the GE Committee required advanced distribution courses from either upper group GE courses or from a list of about 80 courses compiled by the Committee. During the Faculty discussion, the Committee changed its proposals so that any course whatsoever is now suitable for advanced distribution. However, only two of the total of six distribution courses may be in the area of the student's concentration. No other major changes were made in the Committee's recommendations...
...River Nile, which has controlled the lives of millions of men in the last 7,000 years, may soon be completely controlled by man. After years of bickering, the British and Egyptian governments have agreed to start a system of dams on the upper tributaries which will eventually turn the unpredictable Nile into an obedient, dependable slave...
Snubs That Rankled. His boyhood chance for traveling with the home-town upper-upper crust was wiped out by a financial panic. "I can remember distinctly how I felt when we didn't have any more money [after the crash of 1907]. I could feel myself becoming what [Anthropologist W. L.] Warner calls 'mobilized downward.' Of course, I had read Horatio Alger and I was ready to face this change in circumstance in a sportsmanlike manner." In Point of No Return it is Anthropologist Malcolm Bryant who explains such niceties of the scientific vocabulary to Charley Gray...