Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dogs from the upper reaches of Washington Street sit back and relax and enjoy what they see with a non-partisan air of having watched it all before...
...Community Fund, called "one of the many destinations for Council money," is nevertheless an important one, it was stated, and greater emphasis is being placed on it in the individual door-to-door contacts. Lack of enthusiasm in the upper classes was scored, but Bunker pointed out that the disparity in total pledges is partly explained by the fact that the Freshman class is the largest, nearly twice the size of the Senior group...
Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, recently stated upon his return from South America that the mass of the people in South America and Central America are overwhelmingly pro-democratic, while the upper classes in some of the countries lean away from democratic sympathies...
Boston will be trying to repeat last year's 20 to 0 Crimson victory. Coach Steve Sorota's boys of blue, however, definitely have the upper hand, having beaten the Northeastern Freshmen 20 to 0, Nichols Junior College 29 to 0 and the Yale Freshmen 9 to 7 in their first three games of the season...
Meanwhile, closer to home, some undergraduate canoeists on the upper Charles River happened on an incipient forest fire blazing in the finder-dry underbrush. Aided by a couple of local urchins, they worked fast and succeeded in beating out the flames before they spread beyond a few hundred square feet of grassy woods...