Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article about Headmaster C. A. Elliott of Eton is excellent, but the term "cane" is technically incorrect. Caning at Eton is only carried out by certain privileged boys of the upper school, and is essentially a punishment for delinquencies connected with the discipline of the boarding houses and on the playing fields. It has nothing to do with academic offences...
...President Truman, who asked for more money from the middle and upper income brackets, defined his terms. The "upper bracket" begins at from $25,000 to $30,000 a year. The middle bracket begins...
...eddies. The wing loses most of its lift, and the stall that results can throw the airplane, into a disastrous spin. The danger of stalling can be lessened by slots behind the leading edge of the wing. The slots feed thin layers of air to the wing's upper side and suppress the dangerous turbulence...
...later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year, restoring the wartime excess-profits tax. He urged Congress instead to get the money by raising rates on straight corporation taxes and rates on incomes in the middle and upper brackets...
...Debate Council elected a new slate of officers for 1949 at a meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room yesterday afternoon...