Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good look at the "undreamed vistas" of space, Dr. Zwicky plans to use three kinds of projectiles: 1) large primary rockets, such as the V2, which will carry scientific instruments to the upper parts of the earth's atmosphere; 2) secondary rockets, which will be launched from the primary rockets to a height of 650 miles, and will also carry recording instruments; 3) flying missiles, "capable of flying off into interplanetary space, never to return," which will be hurled free at a speed of over seven miles a second...
Most of the Freshman courses reflect by their small numbers the high percentage of upper classmen here this summer. Unlike last year when Government 1, Economics A, and English A led in their respective fields the middle group courses show the heaviest enrollments...
...river rose they speeded up their work. While children helped their elders fill sandbags with toy shovels, and every able-bodied citizen lugged the bags to the levee, the river kept rising. Suddenly, everybody knew Grand Tower was going to have a "duck drownder." People stacked furniture in upper stories, took cattle and chickens to the high pasture near the cemetery, and waited "for her to blow." At dusk one night last week, she blew...
...there seems to be no other way, and most of the criticism of the government's position comes from Conservatives who are inordinately bitter about the Labourites in power. In the upper brackets there is a feeling that it's not good form for other countries to see England on deshabille, that the Government is deliberately envisioning a rather crude workers' commonwealth, and that pity from America is distasteful. (Americans, it's true, can be pretty foul when they start pitying "foreigners"). But the cold facts remain: goods are short in Britain, life is uncomfortable, and a great deal...
...against the government is "inefficiency". Everyone agrees that whichever party were in control in these difficult times would have a terrible job, but Conservatives cannot be happy under a government whose announced aims, they say, include not worrying about anyone with more than a 1000 pound income. Tradition-conscious upper middle class people make polite jokes about the boorishness of Labor ministers, sigh "If Mr. Churchill were only running things," and act like virtual disinterested strangers in their own country...