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...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...
...while Harvard today bares little resemblance to its post-war world, its current status can partially be attributed to the jarring changes of the late 1940s...
Back in the 1940s, when plain old X rays were considered high tech, shoe salesclerks would often determine children's shoe size by X-raying their feet. Never mind that the same thing could have been done with a wooden ruler. Fluoroscopes, as the X-ray devices were called, were promoted as the scientific way to guarantee a proper fit. By the mid-1950s, however, it was clear that many fluoroscopes were badly maintained and ended up subjecting customers--not to mention salesclerks--to potentially dangerous amounts of radiation. Soon the machines were banned...
...early 1940s, animated movies had an average of six minutes of violence. By the late 1990s, that figure had ballooned to 11 minutes of violence...