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...world has changed much since the 1940s," Sen said, alluding to the increased understanding of the global economy and the spread of democracy...
American support for the death penalty has varied. There were 1,289 executions in the 1940s and 715 in the 1950s, and the number fell to 191 by 1976. In 1966 support for capital punishment reached an all-time low, 42%. And the Supreme Court began a series of decisions limiting the scope of the death penalty, effectively outlawing it in 1972. When the court reinstated the penalty in 1976, it mandated that certain procedures, such as separate deliberations for determining guilt and sentencing, were to be followed...
...described not only seeing the impact of poverty in what was becoming India and Bangladesh in the 1940s and 1950s but also "the divisiveness...of communitarian politics...
...late 1940s, however, President Conant, Dean Bender and Provost Buck began work to make Harvard a national university with a student body that reflected the breadth of American diversity...
...Despite the advances it made in the late 1940s toward geographical and social diversity, Harvard was still an almost entirely white, Christian school...