Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard College (the two governing boards created by the Charter of 1650), and the distinguished guests, some of whom are to receive honorary degrees. On his left are members of the several faculties, in full academic dress, the gowns and hoods of foreign universities making a splash of color against our sombre black...
...campaign was loud and ebullient, in the Cuban manner. Everyone admitted that cold, efficient Lawyer Carlos Saladrigas had no political appeal, but no one saw how he could lose. Gentle, starry-eyed Professor (of Anatomy) Grau San Martin supplied all the color, roused the mass enthusiasm...
...opened its doors to every creed and color. Complete racial equality has not yet been achieved, but there are 71 Y.M.C.A.S in the U.S. for Negroes, and many white Ys take in Negroes...
...with names withheld). Englishmen were shocked. The U.S. Army had Parliament's sanction to deal with its own delinquents in its own way but this time Englishmen could not keep quiet. Pointing out the "reasonable doubts" in the case, the Mirror indignantly editorialized: "In America, which has a color problem peculiar to herself, clemency might not be possible. Here . . . it may not be impossible as an act of grace to take a different view...
...been bedevilled by the hideous pagan isolationism. . . . American Protestant Christianity [is] generally a one-class church. ... It is a sorry and alarming fact that Anglo-Saxon white Protestants seem to be imbued with more feeling of racial superiority and are guilty of more arrogant snobbery toward those of another color than any other people. The church has apparently not succeeded in inculcating humility in English-speaking whites...