Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Lowell's main reasons for buildings seven upper-class Houses was to provide a social and recreational unit for the large and scattered student body. Today, although College students are no longer spread throughout Cambridge rooming houses, the enrollment is larger than Lowell ever could have guessed in 1930. The enlarged College of 1955 demands that each House take on an increasingly important job: to provide new activities for its members and to help organize existing College-wide activities on a House level...
...polished story, nor is the plot, which concerns the effect of an enigmatic deckhand upon those around it's a very original one. But it is an even well-sustained piece of fiction. "The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge," by Evan S. Connell, is satire on mid-western, upper-middle class morality. It is not able for a placidity of viewpoint unlike much social satire. The other stories are marred more or less, as I have said, by an obvious effort to be murky or ultra-lucid. The "Art of Fiction" interview, tenth of a uniformly excellent series, is with...
...scuttled out the door. It was the first time in all its 47 years, the management announced, that the hotel had suffered the indignity of a robbery. Such a moment could not go unrecorded. The Vancouver Sun, which occasionally yields to the temptation to tweak Victoria's stiff upper lip, assigned star Cartoonist Len Norris to the historical task...
...sodium rocket was not merely a beautiful and expensive firework; it had a serious scientific purpose: to help the Air Force's long-range study of the upper atmosphere. Part of the "air glow" (the faint glow of the night sky) comes from sodium atoms that absorb solar energy during the day. At night they give off this energy as yellow sodium light. Scientists do not know how high the "sodium layer" is. Nor do they know how the sodium got into the top of the atmosphere. Some think it came from outer space; others suspect that it originated...
Mouth Piece. In Ionia, Mich., when Bank Clerk Celia Kennedy asked a traveling man for identification when he presented a check at the Ionia National Bank, he whipped out his upper plate, pointed to his name engraved on its top, pocketed his cash...