Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fend for themselves. Although the owners of the private halls on the Gold Coast had sold out to the University during the war, a Gold Coast atmosphere still prevailed. Money determined the standard of living and only the club men had a regular place to eat. The three upper classes split up into tight cliques, and clubs and fraternity chapters sprang...
Another bank, the Reliance Cooperative Bank on Dunster St., is also considering an expansion, a member of the board reported yesterday. The upper floors of the building are now apartments which would be turned into offices if the plan is approved, Clarke explained. New apartments "might or might not be built" to house those people, he added...
Last week electoral colleges, formed according to Nationalist Premier Johannes Strydom's tricky new rules (TIME, May 23 et seq.), met to pack the country's Upper House and create the two-thirds majority that he needs to expunge from the constitution the hateful clause that for 45 years has guaranteed voting rights to 50,000 mixed-blood citizens. In Pretoria a handful of black-sashed members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League took up their stations of mute protest outside the old brownstone Raad-saal where Premier Strydom staged his show. Inside, opposition...
...molding and roof beams at the southwest corner of the building. To get at the smoldering blaze, however, firemen had had to tear away walls, rip through ceilings, and shoot high-pressure water throughout the whole leaky structure. The result was extensive damage to plaster and furnishings on the upper floors and in the western half of the main dining room...
...really the only possible place we could send our boy," but this is a reflection of an atmosphere, not of Harvard, but of those certain families and homes. Naturally Marquand is aware of this distinction, for he is not writing exclusively about Harvard, but about a small segment of upper and middle class New England...