Word: bracket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, lower-bracket French workers, caught by inflation, had a case. The Dépêche de Paris (before it was struck) published a table showing how living costs had risen...
...still a dedicated man. Mexican-born, he quit college in Los Angeles to study art in Manhattan, had no dance training at all when friends sent him to Dancers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, a pair of experimenters whom dance historians bracket with Martha Graham. In his ten years with their group Limon was first student, then teacher and featured soloist. Limon left them only because he was ready to go out on his own. Still his adviser, Doris Humphrey runs many of his rehearsals, did the choreography for two of the four works in his present repertory (the other...
...Louria came back from his Syracuse loss to decision Fred Reeve of the Ithacans by a 2 to 0 count, while Fuller did the same to take the heavyweight bout from Bob Clark of Cornell. Wrestling in the 121-pound bracket, Bluemel was pinned in 1:28 of the first period with a body press and half nelson. Knox, a 128-pounder, dropped a decision to John Calby...
...scholar's family. Unquestionably the College has benefited greatly from this infusion of rich intellectual talent and leadership. At the same time it is vital to note that of these Scholars, some 20 percent were taken from families whose incomes were above $5000, and 40 percent from an income bracket over $4000. Since there is no questioning the Committee's sincerity in choosing the most promising candidates, and even less validity in a claim that the lower income groups are incapable of producing top academic timber, it remains that a great mass of men who could benefit most from...
Excess Profit. In Portland, Ore., City Commissioner Kenneth Cooper bemoaned the nickel bonus added to his $5,000 salary, complained that it boosted him into a higher income-tax bracket...