Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian Ambassador, Signer Nobile Giacomo de Martino, with 60 countrymen, members of the Vatican Choir. The latter presented the President first with a collection of copper engravings of Vatican paintings, encased in tooled leather; second, with singing at the White House steps. Mrs. Coolidge listened from an upper window...
...largest Negro city in the world is concentrated on the eastern upper tip of Manhattan Island. But Harlem is by no means exclusively a Lincoln-loving land. That is, its inhabitants have learned, like their Jewish neighbors in the nearby Bronx, to vote wlth the Irish democrats of Tammany Hall; to admire Democratic Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Bluebooks are now posted in the squash courts and in the Law, Business, and Medical Schools, where men may sign up by their classes. For the three upper classes of the College, entries will close today, and for the other departments on Saturday...
Doubtless a number of students will feel somewhat lost the first time that the sustaining hand of supervision is with drawn. But if university men, particularly the upper classmen most affected, cannot use a two or three week period of reading to advantage after the subjects have been opened up to them by lectures or by tutorial conferences, there is manifestly something stultifying in our former methods of instruction. The faults that will be shown by experience to come through the use of the reading period will quite possibly be those of a too elaborate effort on the part...
...English wives theretofore knew nothing of them; English husbands regarded them as exotic refinements of bawdiness. No English wives who bore children on the duodecimal system learned that any protection existed. They asked their gossips, they told their gossips, what little information disseminated through the country. Women of the upper class learned fairly accurate data; their birth rates declined quickly. Women of the lower social levels received faulty and sometimes harmful instruction. A Malthusian League was formed...