Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the cold struck, upper-class Cantonese got out kerosene stoves to heat their homes. Visitors from the north and foreign diplomats retreated to cold, damp, black-&-white-tiled hotel rooms where they vainly tried to fight off the chill. Said one homesick New Yorker: "You'd think we were exiled in the men's room of the Pennsylvania Station...
...elevators, or in the morning has a "sensational" idea which he discards by nightfall. But Paley has surrounded himself with a group of hardworking, intense young men who stick to CBS because they like excitement as much as they like the pay that CBS hands out to its upper-bracket...
...Cummings' afternoon at the home of the influential woman Communist known as Madame Potiphar-with a lean GPU agent appearing unexpectedly, and the hostess disappearing with "a hero of work" while her husband lectures to Cummings about the Cause-is a queer mixture of horror and humor in upper-crust Communist social life. The other episodes and scenes seem to have grown more impressive-the theater ("everywhere a mysterious sense of behaving, of housebrokenness,of watch-your-stepism"), the jail and the nightclubs, the Writers' Club and the literary receptions, the chronic indigestion, the perpetual enthusiasm, the American...
...leagues have been formed on the basis of team records in the pre-examination round-robin competition. The top seven teams are in the National League, while the eight weaker squads compose the American League. Massachusetts Hall has dropped out of the upper circuit because of a shortage of players. All games will be played either at the Indoor Athletic Building or at Homenway Gymnasium...
...offerings. The only really restrictive ruling would require that after the fall of 1951 three of the required six courses must come from the elementary GE list--which even now provides 11 choices in social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The remaining credits would be elected from either the upper-group GE list or a bumper crop of departmental courses. In every step of the actual framing, the Committee has been careful to allow leeway-- even to the inclusion of two "elastic clauses" to handle exceptional cases, individual or composite...