Word: decentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over twenty per cent of the graduate student house-hunters are some other color than white. The Housing Office, which lists over one thousand apartments and 557 landlords, has valiantly tried to obtain decent housing near the University for all of them. This fall, the Office sent each landlady a note reminding them that discriminators were not welcome on the housing lists, but colored students kept returning empty-handed. Acting on its threat the Office has erased landladies who admit purposely drawing a color line from its listings. But such blunt cases are rare. For every bare-faced discriminator, there...
...made a lot of Decent People...
...That statement is so contrary to every concept of legal ethics as I read and understand them. . . Either Mr. Curtis' views are in conflict with those of every decent member of the legal profession, or he has expressed them in a manner that can only be described as inordinately stupid...
After reading your Aug. 25 article, "How Not to Make Friends," I couldn't help but wish you had published the names of the drugstores and restaurants which refused service to S. Thava Rajah, so that the decent-minded people of Washington, D.C. would know better than to patronize such . . . places...
...recurrent fits of insanity or epilepsy,' he would be free to marry again at once, with not a word of reproach from Portugal Street [the Church Times's address] . . . But where is 'Our Lord's authority' for this? How dare such loose thinkers lecture decent people . . . on lack of 'principle...