Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second term Freshmen and upper-classmen not now enrolled in a field of concentration meet in Handers Theatre Saturday morning at 9 o'clock to hear Delmar Leighton '19, dean of Freshmen, George A. Smith, Jr., professor of Business Administration, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, speak on the choice of a field...
...they were shy young men and showed little inclination to brave the noisy world. In 1909, when Homer was 27 and Langley 23, they were still living with their parents in a handsome, three-story brownstone on upper Fifth Avenue. Then their father & mother separated. The brothers began shutting themselves off from life...
While "cot-fishing crews" (four men with two flat-bottomed boats known as currachs or cots) rescued householders from upper-story windows, watchers on the hills knelt in the downpour and recited the Rosary. Confessionals and prayer-stools floated out of church doors. On the Galtee slopes above Tipperary, sheep, terrified by the mountain torrents, fled to the valley, leaving their lambs to perish. It had never happened before...
...appearances Princess Elizabeth is exactly the daughter that plain, conscientious King George and matronly Queen Elizabeth deserve. That is precisely what her future subjects want her to be. Transplanted by some magic into almost any upper-middle-class suburb in the U.S., Mr. & Mrs. George Windsor would undoubtedly be among the solidest section of the community. With her mind never quite detached from the children, well-read, talented Mrs. Windsor would find time to be popular and businesslike at meetings of the Altar Guild and the Garden Club...
...about 50 years old and living in Upper Bavaria, Hanfstaengl said he had "collaborated" with American diplomatic officials during the war and had been personally invited by the late President Roosevelt to help reconstruct the German press after...