Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years before the war, close to 1500 students, all upper-classmen, participated in the House athletic events. House teams battled in twenty-five different sports; graduate mentors coached the squads; professional officials refereed many of the games...
...tomatoes at him, Lord Halifax had replied: "Let them have a good time for their money." The Nazis had killed one of his three sons in Egypt; another had lost both legs in the battle of Alamein. The U.S. gradually came to respect, and almost to like, his stiff upper...
...Upper Park Avenue, a bright-colored, schoolboyish splash by New York's Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin. Said Socialite Joe Baldwin: "[Painting] takes a very short time actually...
...should give scientists a good line on the ionosphere-composition and density of its gases, temperature at the upper levels, possibly the incidence and effect of cosmic rays. Such information will be relayed to the ground by radio telemeters...
...Juniors and Seniors are excused from exercise because they presumably are physically mature, academically busy, and socially adjusted. Veterans are in equally good shape, and their academic burdens, after several years' absence from lectures and blue books, are fully as great as those of upper classmen, sliding along smoothly in their scholastic grooves. All that remains, then, is the misassumption that veterans, like non-veteran Freshmen, need an added stimulus to find recreation and meet people. Months of community living have removed all vestiges of the hermit instinct from most ex-service men. They know how to go about meeting...