Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical Jap blockhouse below Suribachi was more cunningly contrived than anything on Tarawa. Its outer walls were of reinforced concrete, 40 inches thick. The vent did not open toward the sea, but slantwise toward the upper beaches: the 120-mm. gun inside could fire on the beaches and some of our ships, but could not be hit except from a particular angle. There was no sign that it had been touched by anything but a flamethrower. Beside it lay the bodies of eight marines-the apparent cost of taking what was only one of several hundreds similar positions, nearly...
...oath and handshaking all around, the Senate welcomed Admiral Thomas C. Hart, appointed by Connecticut's Governor to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Francis Maloney (TIME, Feb. 12). High-collared, 67-year-old Tommy Hart became the occupant of the 40th Republican seat in the upper house, the first U.S. admiral ever to sit in the U.S. Senate...
While nothing new could be said concerning the present athletic set-up, Getchell predicted that the informal plan would continue until a sufficient number of upper graduates (freshmen are not allowed to take part in formal varsity competition) returned to warrant resumption of formal intercollegiate athletics...
...despair that infected all classes, from the Queen Mother Elisabeth (once the wife of World War I's beloved King Albert) and her Regent Son Charles to the poorest peasant on the Flanders plain or the meanest miner in the coal-rich Borinage. The upper and middle classes felt a mounting insecurity before social dislocations. The lower classes felt insecurity in everything-and their resentment found a scapegoat in Premier-Pierot, who had spent the war years as head of the Government in Exile in London...
Coal deliveries were limited to consumers who had less than a five-day supply, and then only one ton was allowed each customer. In Manhattan, coal was cut off for museums, libraries and places of amusement. In many New England and upper New York State communities, schools and public buildings closed...