Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miao in the 7th Century A.D.), which are much like those outlined in the Western world's Hippocratic oath, Dr. Chang treats poor patients as carefully as the rich, charges them nothing. His middle-class patients pay about $100,000 Chinese ($200 American) a day. His upper-crust patients pay in largesse of the realm-fine furs and such succulent delicacies as sharks' fins and bears' paws...
Competition for the two annual Coolidge debating prizes will culminate Sunday evening at 8 o'clock when the six finalists, all members of the Debate Council, contest against each other in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
Although the Duce's upper teeth now protruded grotesquely, there was no mistaking his jaw. In death, Mussolini seemed a little man. He wore a Fascist Militia uniform - grey breeches with a narrow black stripe, a green-grey tunic and muddy black riding boots. A bullet had pierced his skull over the left eye and emerged at the back, leaving a hole from which the brains dripped. Mistress Petacci, 2 5 -year-old daughter of an ambitious Roman family, wore a white silk blouse. In her breast were two bullet holes ringed by dark circles of dried blood...
Senator in Action. As a Senator, Arthur Vandenberg has been a Republican independent. One of his heroes in the upper house was the late, great maverick, Bill Borah; when Borah died, Vandenberg moved into his office. He strung along with the New Deal on Social Security, SEC and price control; opposed it on TVA, the Supreme Court packing bill, and consumer subsidies. Some newsmen in the capital began to call him the "Yes and No Man." He is proud of a letter from Democrat Leo Crowley, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., acknowledging Vandenberg as the father of that...
...years the House of Savoy has stood divided by a polite but firm family feud. Last week the faction headed by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieut. General of the Realm, was enjoying a temporary upper hand over the faction represented by his 45-year-old playboy cousin, Prince Aimone di Savoia, Duke of Aosta...