Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social hostesses." She noted that student government leaders had joined the faculty a few years ago in a campaign to make the girls quit walking around Cambridge in slacks and dungarees. After a stern battle, the rank and file agreed to wear these epitomes only on the upper floors of the dormitories. Miss Kitchin said in a firm voice: "Any girls in slacks or dungarees you see around here aren't Sargent girls. They're probably from Radcliffe or somewhere...
...France, the story was different. Cabled a TIME correspondent after visiting a Paris diesel factory: "They [the P.O.W.s] looked exactly like the French workers next to them. Many wore berets, had cigarette butts sticking to their upper lips just like the French workers; even the movements and gestures seemed to be Latin, and had lost the German rigidity. There was not a single example of a Prussian haircut,. . . two of them were even exaggerating the fashion of Parisian youngsters and wore their hair so long that they had to pin it back with a long buckle. Said one of them...
...general, males of the upper levels feel that lower-level morality lacks "ideals" while the lower level feels that the college-level group is artificial and insincere in its sexual behavior-and what is worse, tries to force its patterns on others. Says Kinsey: "Legends about the immorality of the lower level are matched by legends about the perversions of the upper level...
...among Scots. "I remember that in my early days," Stanley Baldwin once said, "it was with difficulty that one could stand up while the band was playing God Save the King, because we had a Hanoverian and not a Jacobite king." More significant was the rest of his background: upper middle class, Harrow-Cambridge, chapel-turned-Church, just the proper mixture of trade and land and what he proudly admitted were "second-class brains." With this equipment, plus a sturdy character, for three times as Prime Minister he ruled a Britain that distrusted brilliance...
...background, in the very broadest sense of the word, shaped his first year hear. This, in combination with his section of the country, his type of community, his school, and myriad other factors made it inevitable that these fellow classmen, rather than those, should be his companions. During his upper class years the undergraduate may broaden his field of friends, or he may narrow it-this is up to the individual...