Word: dispells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final date" that the Supreme Court lays down for de-segregation. Professor Gordon Allport, who has studied the decline in prejudice that accompanies forced de-segregation in schools and factories, sees grave problems in the Southern leadership's drastic opposition to compliance. Integration is surely the best way to dispel racial bias, but integration cannot occur until Southern politicians have exhausted their evasive ingenuity...
Although the Administration recognizes the unfairness of this situation, it has done nothing to dispel the confusion over rents. There has never been a complete re-assessment of all rooms in the Yard. NO one knows when the current prices were set or exactly how they were determined. According to the Department of Buildings and Grounds, such factors as size, floor, and bathroom facilities were probably among the original criteria. But the Department admits that there is no standard system for applying these criteria. In addition, the price of a given room depends on such factors as the view, which...
...intervened an entire province for seven years, and Argentines assumed that he must have urgent reasons for the crackdown. According to stories floating about Buenos Aires, Perónista officials in the three provinces had gone in heavily for nepotism and graft, but last week Minister Borlenghi tried to dispel such unpleasant talk. "I want to make it clear," he said, "that none of the charges have to do with the honesty of the governments intervened." The trouble, Borlenghi explained in phrases worthy of authoritarian doubletalk, was that the three provincial governments showed "a lack of interest in public service...
Dean Bundy, citing the draft and increased selectivity of admissions as causes of this attitude, pointed out, "We have tried quite hard to dispel the idea that grades alone are used in deciding matters like scholarships." He urged students to take advantage of the College's many distinguished authorities by taking the courses that they give for the sake of learning...
...paper the varsity has done nothing to dispel the early season forecast of a fourth straight last place finish. The team's record with ten games left on the schedule is 4-9, 1-5 in league play. But to the observer who has seen the last-place Harvard teams of the past, this year's quintet is a pleasure to watch...