Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week's Collier's Surrey claimed that these upper-bracket rates are not strictly enforced. Congress, out of a desire to help those paying such 'fantastically high rates," is constantly creating ways for certain groups to escape from the very taxes it imposes, he asserted...
...Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister Johannes Strydom last week. After five years of relentless campaigning, this taut, thin-lipped, back-country lawyer and ostrich farmer had won the parliamentary fight to establish white supremacy in a land of 2,600,000 whites and 10,000,000 nonwhites. Its Upper House now packed with 41 new, Strydom-created Senators to furnish the necessary votes, Parliament bowled heavily through a final joint session to change an "entrenched clause" in the 1909 South African constitution and strike the last 45,000 Colored (mixed blood) voters from the common voting roll. Strydom...
Through it all, Marylebone's men kept a stiff upper lip-and kept on losing...
Such a rise moreover would not have an entirely beneficial effect on the middle class pocketbook. Lower-middle class families are already resigned to making sacrifices and can also obtain scholarships; upper class families can absorb an additional bill without losing more than a few coupons. But the two-car family which has peculiar demands upon its savings gets caught in the pinch which has already hit the slightly less prosperous family. Unless both the scale and theory of scholarship aid are revised, financial aid officers are likely to continue looking askance at pleas from the so-called middle-middles...
Crehore broke a scoreless tie at 19:49 of the first period with a shot into the far upper corner of the cage after taking a pass from Bob McVey on the right. The varsity then had to protect that slim one-goal lead until defenseman John Copeland scored on a long shot at 3:50 of the last period...