Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local tax office and burned the tax records. Seizing the abandoned carabinieri truck, the peasants drove it through the barred double doors of the city hall's main entrance and set it afire. But inside, besides the harried carabinieri, were 100 women and children, who were trapped in upper floors as the flames spread from truck to building. As their shrill cries were heard, the mob surrounding the building parted ranks to let the women and children file out. At that point, reinforcements from Naples arrived: 500 carabinieri, 500 city cops, and six fire engines. While firemen...
Tables of average heights and weights for children have been so overpromoted that many mothers spend their time jittering needlessly about whether a youngster is up to par. But doctors have never studied data on averages for people at the upper end of the life span. Last week Dr. Arthur M. Master presented the A.M.A. with revealing data on oldsters aged 65 to 94. The tables were compiled at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital from information on 2,925 men and 2,694 women all over...
...issues were clearly drawn in last week's election for 127 seats in the upper house of the Japanese Diet. Premier Nobusuke Kishi (who some U.S. worrywarts once thought would prove anti-American) campaigned by urging closer ties with the U.S. The rival Socialists, looking for somewhere else to go, demanded abrogation of the U.S.-Japanese Security Pact and firm alliance with Red China and the Soviet Union. When the votes were in, Premier Kishi had won a clear victory, capturing 71 of the contested seats to 38 for the Socialists. The Socialists lost nearly a million votes...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, introduces freshmen and upper-classmen to the various doctrines of philosophy in Philosophy 1. For the freshman, especially one who comes from a relatively sheltered religious background, the introduction to such thinkers as Spinoza and Hume may prove novel and disquieting. Demos admits some students may be shaken by an introduction to skepticism...
...make their houses sound classy (Une maison ranch très originate), the executive who had his parents moved from an unfashionable cemetery to a posher last resting place. The trouble is that too much of what Author Packard observes is old hat, such as the upper-class preference for old hats over flashy new ones. He over-generalizes. One dubious example: Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to point to their past by living in Early American, white clapboard houses, while Jews prefer modern architecture, since no one would credit them with an Early American ancestry anyway. And, searching...