Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided on the arm, and not the leg, in order to be spared the bother of shaving my new upper lip. We chose a piece of skin bounded on one side by a vaccination mark and on the other by the faint scar of what are now my upper lids." Thus in January 1941, back again in hospital four months after he had been brought down in flames, ex-Spitfire Fighter Hillary confronted his personal problem of post-war reconstruction. For Richard Hillary the war was over...
Opening their current season, the Freshman debaters meet the Dartmouth speakers at 7:45 o'clock tonight in the Union Upper Common Room...
Only four entries were scheduled to participate in the trial, but with the air raid signal, the lights in all twelve of the courtyard entries started to go out to the accompaniment of yells from the upper windows...
Revealing that the student body as a whole still believes that a liberal education is more important than scientific training for the College, the poll stressed that interest in a specific education for war was concentrated in the upper classes...
...great deal of this enthusiasm appears to be running to waste, from sheer confusion, and lack of information. While a majority of upper classmen feel that "during the war students should spend most of their time on specific training for war," they also want the universities to concentrate on giving liberal arts training. More than 40 per cent of the college is convinced that if they are drafted their training and experience will not be considered by the Army. In the light of Professor Seavey's recent report on his tour of draft camps, this is clearly a mistaken impression...