Word: 1940s
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Until 1950 the University of Texas Law School excluded blacks entirely. (In the 1940s it had tried to offer them a separate facility in the basement.) Fifteen years ago, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare found that the school had still failed to eliminate vestiges of past discrimination. Soon after, the university adopted a new admissions policy: black or Mexican-American applicants would now be considered by a separate committee and admitted under lower standards than those required of whites. After four white students were rejected in 1992, they brought suit. Last year a federal judge ruled that...
...viewed as something of an upstart in the alitist tennis world before he collected three consecutive Wimbledon crowns (1934, '36) and three U.S. Open titles (1933, '34, '36). The first court star to win all four Grand Slam events (though never in one year), Perry retired in the late 1940s. He co-founded a profitable sportswear company that sold the kind of natty tennis garb he favored...
Last year, then-Provost Jerry R. Green named an ad hoc committee to review human subject research at the University. The decision to establish the committee followed revelations that Harvard scientists in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s had participated in experiments in which human subjects were unknowingly subjected to radiation...
...during the 1940s, as the middle class sucked in vast numbers of new members with aspirations of gentility, these Americans began to insist on purebreds too, and their popularity took off. In 1944 the AKC registered 77,400 dogs; that jumped to 235,978 in 1949, and by 1970, the club was issuing papers on a million dogs a year. (The total last year: 1.4 million...
Connie (Lisa Nosal) is the first character in the boat. As a tall leggy brunette of wealth, Nosal embodies the swank decadence of 1940s glamour. She's tougher (and taller) than most of the men. Only once does she loose her cool, when she slaps another passanger across and then has to slither back to him for reassurance. She seduces Kovacs (Dylan ) but the intimacy between them seems so forced...