Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only for those years, according to committee secretary Colin F. N. Irving '45, partly because the difference in social maturation between boys and girls seems to be too great at an earlier age. Since Exeter now has an enrollment of 750, he added, the boy-girl ratio in the upper grades would be improved by not admitting girls in all four classes...
...Bible does. In showing the world's first fratricide, Fry has the psychotically jealous Cain pick up an ass's jawbone-si, si, Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed Abel's upper cranium the first time he used it, and the scene had to be interrupted for nearly a week until the black and blue patch subsided...
...addition to turning handsome profits on the sale of plants and processes, gain entree to the East for sales of other goods. Moreover, if Eastern Europe's drift toward capitalism continues, the Communists may be willing some day to let Western businessmen invest in the East. On the upper levels of the Hungarian government, there was talk last year of inviting Conrad Hilton in to build and manage a hotel in Budapest. Though that idea fell through, at least four of the satellite countries are negotiating with Pepsi-Cola. The Communists want to buy Pepsi's franchises...
What the councillors are really interested in is the installation of traffic signals along the upper part of Massachusetts Avenue and, after that, at dangerous intersections in other parts of the City. About the lights, Rudolph could only say what he had said before: he was expediting the problem as quickly as "humanly" possible, but he couldn't give any exact date for the installation of the lights on Mass...
...lackadaisical lad who grew up on Manhattan's upper East Side, Straus joined Macy's training squad straight out of Harvard in 1921, moved up from corsets and handbags into the nonselling side, eventually becoming fourth assistant general manager. Then one day his father chided him: "Jack, if I take a pushcart and fill it full of management, I haven't got much to sell. If I fill it with merchandise, I have something to sell." Straus began all over again as a junior buyer, did so well on the way back up that he was made...