Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the number of upper class applicants remaining at approximately 200, the number successful for the four years from 1937 have been 144, 97, 77, and 52 respectively. In addition to this the waiting list for the past winter fell to the unusually low number...
...main job these days is poli tics, not business, and it is a fulltime job. When he can get away from his political muttons he likes to go to his magnificent 1,500-acre Warwick Farms in upper Chester County, where every prospect pleases...
While Dean Chen busied himself trying to revive in Free China such chieh-chi, the seasonal cloud bank which has shrouded Chungking and the upper Yangtze valley since last autumn (effectively preventing Japanese air bombing) began fatefully to lift last week. In Chungking squads of police, under stern orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, worked down street after street driving out of Chungking and into the suburbs thousands of Chinese whom they hoped thus to save from the expected bombs. Many Chinese merchants, restaurant keepers and singsong-house proprietors vigorously protested that they were doing a fine business in Chungking, preferred...
...Jeffries Barn flocked Hollywood's upper crust, more to enjoy Belle Martell's entr'acte gags-picked up during 20 years of vaudeville trouping-than the bouts themselves. Four years ago, when Husband Martell was hired to promote the Los Angeles Athletic Club's boxing shows at the Olympic Auditorium, Mrs. Martell not only helped with promotion but promptly got an announcer's license, later a timekeeper's license-first ever issued to a woman. Last week, in the State examination for referees. Intruder Martell got 97½. a higher mark than...
...walking and talking gathering from its beginning. Progressing up Mill Street between Lowell and Winthrop Houses, the spring affected frolickers took up the traditional cry of "Reinhardt," and more men poured out of the dormitories in addition to a few wastebaskets full of water from the Puritan upper windows...