Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object--a heightened academic pace--dovetailed closely with another way for Harvard to help solve the problem which would be created by increased pressure for college admissions. This was the view that saw the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--both the College and the Graduate School--as an upper-level teachers' college, a Ph.D. mill to supply the nation's college instructors...
...upper floors of the IAB were opened at about the same time compulsory physical exercise was to begin for the freshmen. The new pool, the gift of one Alumnus Aquaticus, drew over 350 people a day to its waters. At Dunster House, it was reported, the students daily consumed the production of fifty cows and one hundred hens...
...yachts soon focused down on Miami Dock Owner Harold E. Manning, who explained that for some time he had been in the business of stocking, chartering and selling yachts that well-heeled Miamians had given to the CAP as a tax dodge. Under prevailing tax rates, an upper-bracket yacht owner can often save more on his income tax by donating a well-depreciated business yacht than by selling it on the market...
Their composite heads and brains seemed normal. The host chicks were Rhode Island Reds but the grafted tissue came from a black breed and it showed its origin by the growth of black feathers on the top of the head. The upper beak, eyes, ears, forebrain and half of the midbrain were grafted too, but the chicks could see and hear well and seemed to be normally alert. The one that lived 70 days learned to respond to a whistle, which many birds never learn...
...symbolical of the dead (he is now with the United States Army Graves Registration), can prove that Dujardin is. in fact, no martyr but a traitor. This should make Stone a hero in his own right, but, as Humes tells it, he is caught between the upper millstone of a postwar U.S. right wing and the nether millstone of French Stalinism...