Word: affections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even if physical facilities are equal, said the court, there are intangible factors which prevent "separate" from being "equal." "To separate [Negro children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone . . . We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...
...Arctic icecap, covering some 3,000,000 square miles from Greenland to Northeastern Siberia, is the source of cold winds and ocean currents that affect the climate of the northern hemisphere. Last week Edward L. Gorton Jr. of the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office released the first results of a continuing analysis of the polar wasteland...
...grounds. First, they claim that people of this age are too easily influenced by their emotions, and are thus ready prey to political demagoguery. Rationality, however, does not necessarily come with age. Subjective, irrational considerations influence the white-collar worker of 30 as surely as they affect the high-school student of 18. The housewife with a son in Korea and the farmer who "distrusts foreigners" are easy targets for slick political oratory. If the voting age were lowered, high schools would place an even greater emphasis on civics and American history than they do now, to prepare their students...
While Belgian Catholics still smarted under defeat, Catholics in the neighboring Netherlands celebrated their restoration as the nation's biggest party. In nationwide elections for provincial councils (which do not directly affect the national government), the Catholic People's Party polled 31.5% of the vote, inching past their coalition partners in the national government, the Socialists, who gained slightly themselves, to poll 29.4%. Chief losers: the Communists, who polled only 284,284 votes, a decline...
Emphasizing that the changes will only affect Lamont and not the other branches of the University Library, Philip J. McNiff, director of Lamont, said that the new hours are being tried in response to "requests and demands by undergraduates that the library close later...