Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When this manor--one of the last vestiges of the proud old days--was up for sale, the London papers advertised "A Georgian residence, woodlands and farms, and a good sporting property." The tradition-conscious London Times stiffened its upper lip and noted, "The Sheraton and Chippendale furniture...is now being taken away to the sale rooms...
...some citizens, especially among the upper classes, their work became an "inner migration" from the hard facts of Soviet life. They lost themselves in their work...
...upper classes get a great deal of direct satisfaction from their school experiences...and see the schools as training them for a specific life career...
...lower classes are less sanguine than the upper classes about their opportunities for education. To some extent, their optimism on this score seems to be increasing with the expansion of the Soviet educational system...
...that they chose instead-by a vote of 62,294 to 54,282-a newcomer to politics, egg-bald George Dewey Clyde, 58, whose only political recommendation was that, as commissioner of the Utah Water and Power Board, he campaigned hard and successfully for passage of the popular Upper Colorado River bill (TIME, Feb. 12 et ante...