Word: 14th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another short step Monday when the Supreme Court declared that Negroes are entitled to receive in state institutions the same type of educational training accorded to whites and to receive it just as quickly as any other group. The decision was based on the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment...
...process of closing one loophole after another. New ways are constantly being found to circumvent the intent of the Constitutional guarantees of equality. For many years the Supreme Court, itself, was one of the chief sinners in this respect. It decided on somewhat dubious grounds that the 14th Amendment was meant to protect only those rights that stem from national citizenship, and that most basic civil rights are contingent upon state citizenship. The Court was disposed not to protect civil rights unless they were infringed upon by an official act of a state government--a rare occurrence...
...principles of justice and equality about which they can speak so glibly. Yet this evolutionary process, while not so soul satisfying as more drastic, quicker methods, is the one which will eventually result in giving a new and better meaning to the basic principles which are embodied in the 14th amendment...
Under the electron microscope, the cold-causing agent appeared to be "characteristic particles ... of the same general size as viruses of the influenza type, but . . . readily distinguishable from them." The two physicians named the "germ" .V14A because it came from the first nasal washing of the 14th volunteer...
...tale of 14th Century Verona, the star-cross'd lovers' sacrifice united the feuding groups. In the tale of 20th Century Berlin, there was no such promise...