Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Possibly the last group of Dental School students for some time to come have gained access to the medical profession through the side door of dentistry...
...Nehru introduced, and the lower House of the People quickly passed, India's first bill to make discrimination against untouchables an offense-punishable with a six-month jail term and a fine of 500 rupees ($105). Henceforth, untouchables will have the law on their side in demanding undisturbed access to shops and restaurants, public wells, tanks and bathing ghats...
...named R. Karl Honaman (on leave from Bell Telephone), who had gone to Washington six months ago to boss the Commerce Department's new Office of Strategic Information. There, he was primarily a censor, had set up a system for classifying technical information that reporters had once had access to. Thus, for the top information job at Defense, reporters were dismayed that Wilson had picked a man whose chief experience had been in withholding information rather than in giving...
...literary Fort Knox, with its invaluable treasures buried in regulations. Built and endowed (with $11.5 million) in 1930 by Oil Tycoon Henry Clay Folger to house his vast, scattered hoard of Shakespeariana, the library was run almost like an exclusive club. Only scholars known to its staffers could gain access to its books and manuscripts-after writing in advance. Even the favored few were stopped by the silken rope, had to sit on a bench until a staff member came to escort them to the books. As a result, days went by without a single visitor gracing the reading room...
...Teheran, five weeks later, Stalin repeated the pledge. He also let it be known that he would like a warm-water port in the Far East. Churchill remarked that Russia already had Vladivostok. Stalin replied it wasn't always ice-free. Roosevelt suggested the Russians might have access to Dairen, in Manchuria...