Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Scandinavia. When the first peace rumors ran from house to house in Stockholm, Swedish families and societies planned festivities. The Swedish Government was delighted to escape from its squeeze between the upper millstone of threatened Allied intervention and the nether-threat of German reprisal for permitting it. Norway and Denmark were likewise relieved. The Copenhagen Politiken, splashing the first news on yellow handbills which were joyfully snatched by gasping passersby, commented: "Happiness will be felt all over the North that the final outcome of suspense was a message of peace...
...surgeon now clamps two hemostats near the upper, or open end of the appendix, closing the tube off both ways...
...sailing season gets under way with a meeting of all men interested in the Yacht Club in the Upper Common Room of Adams House tonight at 7:30 o'clock. At this time plans for the coming season will be discussed and Sloan Wilson '42 will give an illustrated speech on cruising in the Caribbean...
...statement attributed to me appeared in a recent issue of the Crimson saying in effect that jobs would be assured only to men in the upper tenth of the senior class. By implication it was further stated that the other nine-tenths would waste time by registering with the Placement Office. The absurdity of both contentions should be apparent, but there is a half-truth here which demands explanation...
...College by the large national corporations. These companies are frankly in search of outstanding men and to find twenty trainees may visit twenty or more colleges. Such a company recruiting at Harvard may interview thirty men and hire only two. It is true, under these circumstances, that the "upper tenth" stand the best chance of employment...