Word: correctional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooks said her husband had been shot to death for disobeying a bus driver (her testimony was stricken from the record because she had not witnessed the shooting). Sadie Brooks told of seeing a Negro man forced from a bus at pistol-point because he did not have the correct change. Delia Perkins testified that a driver had called her an "ugly black ape." Richard Jordan said his pregnant wife had been forced to give her seat to a white woman. Georgia Teresa Gilmore said when she boarded a bus, the driver shouted, "Come out, nigger...
...Republicans or Democrats would be a match for Bible Reader Benson, who was too polite to correct Bob Poage...
...would like to compliment you on your very excellent article. Although you and many others classify Mr. Jenner as a reactionary, and I think you are quite correct, I once heard a lawyer give a definition of a progressive which seems to fit the Jenner policy and the Senator himself very aptly: "He doubts all his former beliefs and believes all his former doubts...
...automatic transfer of auto parts from one metalworking machine to the next. But its meaning has broadened as fast as its application. A few purists still claim that it should be applied only to completely automatic machines that feed back into themselves reports of how they are doing, and correct themselves if necessary. But most businessmen lump under automation all automatic machines and processes, including the giant tools that follow directions punched on a tape, huge computers that make thousands of intricate mathematical calculations in a fraction of a second, gauges that check fractions of a hairbreadth with a tiny...
...enormous difference between the arrogant doctrinaire (who undoubtedly exists in many academic quarters) who feels he has nothing to learn from men of other views and who will refuse to consider facts that may threaten his doctrinal security, and the scholar who commits himself to views he considers correct at the time when they are under his scrutiny. To accept certain theological conclusions no more disqualifies a person from competent scholarship in this field than belief in democracy and voting in election time disqualifies a man from competent research in the field of Government...