Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old patient had a huge tumor that had engulfed his stomach and part of his upper abdomen. Dr. Brunschwig removed: 1) the stomach, 2) half the left lobe of the liver, 3) the body and tail of the pancreas, 4) the spleen, 5) the transverse colon (a section of the large intestine), 6) part of the abdominal wall. Then he connected the esophagus with what was left of the intestinal tract. The patient, left with only part of the intestines to serve as a digestive system, was "quite comfortable" after the operation, "enjoyed his food" (eaten in small, hourly...
Died. Dr. Auguste Champetier de Ribes, 64, veteran French politician, president of the Council of the Republic (upper house of parliament in the Fourth Republic), head of France's prosecuting staff at the Nürnberg trials; of cancer; in Paris...
...odds the most interesting of these to run in recent weeks was a little notice that sent Freshmen dashing to dictionaries, and upper classmen to their stationery to reply...
...purposely small to air all student suggestions, a valuable check on teaching methods. But with the trial run almost over and student opinion in favor of the scheme, plans are already afoot for larger courses. The enrollment restrictions will be lifted on all coming Humanities classes and seven new upper-group courses will grace the fall catalogue, running from Fine Arts to Far-Eastern Civilizations...
...trying to say. Last week, after surveying editorials in half a dozen big U.S. papers, Gunning told what he found: "Most editorial writers seem to confuse dignity with pomposity. Their marathon sentences, foggy words and abstractions put their pieces completely out of reach of all but the upper 5 to 10% of their readers...