Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seniors applying to any graduate schools except medical or law schools will have to achieve scholastic standing in the upper quarter of their class, or else have scored 80 or more on the draft test in order to be eligible for deferment, according to a directive just released by the Defense Department...
...still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still fight bears and cougars and board their children in school towns 50 miles away during winter. And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called "Mint bars" and "Stockmen...
...property, changed it from a weekly to a fortnightly and gradually expanded its coverage beyond the confines of Park Avenue and Newport. Edna Chase rose like a rocket through the magazine. By 1914 she was editor (at the age of 37) and began playing to the rising U.S. upper middle class. Vogue began publishing whole sections of photographs of well-dressed society leaders in all their finery and sold dress patterns around the U.S. so that every U.S. woman could look as chic...
...Chapman, who is president of the International Central Organizing Commission for the International Geophysical Year (a worldwide UNESCO enterprise) is now at the State University of Iowa, where study of the upper atmosphere is an important specialty. He hopes that the varied information about the earth that is now being gathered by 35 nations, including the U.S.S.R., will verify his theories about the earth's ring. To understand it better will help in dealing with the magnetic storms that mess up communications. When and if space flight comes, says Dr. Chapman, the ionized ring can be studied at close...
...troupe of traveling Shakespearean players, Elsa met (through her father's theatrical friends) the great Caruso and a couple of Jacks: London and Barrymore. She traveled to Europe and Africa as the piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice...