Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yank in the R.A.F." offers exciting glimpses of the bombing of Berlin, the evacuation of Dunkirk, and the conquest of Grable all three feats performed by Tyrone Power without so much as messing his coiffure. The supporting cast, sparked by Reginald Gardiner as an R.A.F. volunteer from the upper crust who is just bored with it all, give sparkling comedy performances; and a horde of extras with wonderful technical direction pack conviction into the military scenes...
Until Haines' score, the battle, the hardest fought of the campaign, was anybody's game. Dick Gifford had set the Varsity out in front in the opening minutes with a beautiful shot into the upper left-hand corner of the Yale goal, but it had been equalized by the shot Jack Hopkins of the Elis headed in the third period...
...hundred and twenty-five upper-classmen of high scholastic standing have been awarded $48,400 in scholarships for the present academic year by vote of the Corporation, it was announced yesterday. The students...
Speaking at a meeting whose purpose is to further Freshman acquaintance with Harvard history, Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, will talk in the Upper Common Room of the union tonight on the subject: "There centuries of Harvard; an informal picture of student life...
Mary Ellen Chase is a well-beloved professor of English Literature at Smith College. One night, according to a campus story, when she was traveling in a lower berth, the man in the upper threw down a note reading "MADAM; Shall I come down?" Miss Chase, in describing the adventure, concluded: "Almost more than my terror at this moment was my horror at the monstrous use of the semicolon...