Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pure roof-raising demagoguery and raking of old hatred, the Tories had nothing to match Nye Bevan. But then there were many who regarded Bevan as a liability when it came to getting the votes where Labor most needed them: among the middle class, which distrusted the upper-class overtones of Toryism but disliked the raucous dogmatism of Labor...
...last week it undertook to pack Parliament as well. In the Lower House of Parliament, Prime Minister Johannes Strydom introduced a bill that would increase the membership of the South African Senate from 48 to 89 in such a way as to raise the Nationalist membership of the Upper House from 30 to 77, reduce the Opposition (United Party) from 18 seats...
...apartment building would house duplex units on the ground floor and on the upper stories would contain "efficiency" one bedroom apartments as well as two bedroom units. All apartments would face onto the park...
...Henri's pupils moved to New York, Henri followed them. Setting up his own school in upper Broadway's Lincoln Arcade, Henri attracted young art students in droves. Henri's school was unquestionably the liveliest art center in New York. Scoffing at "art for art's sake," Henri urged his students to plunge into life, read Whitman and Dostoevsky, go to see Isadora Duncan dance. Students like Guy Pène du Bois and Edward Hopper became Henri enthusiasts. So did Rockwell Kent. Assigned to paint Central Park, Kent is said to have spent the night...
Informal discussions and lower-level Humanities courses ranked as the strongest stimuli of religious interest; religious, social service organizations and upper-level courses in the Social and Natural Sciences were least influential...