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Hispano: descendant of the original Spanish settlers of areas now part of the U.S. Used chiefly in New Mexico and Colorado to distinguish such Spanish-speaking Americans from later immigrants of Indian descent...
...appealed to the state's highest court, but his plea was rejected on the grounds that "no substantial constitutional question exists." Not so, said the U.S. Supreme Court. Ohio's 1919 criminal-syndicalism law, one of 20 enacted by the states during the Bolshevik scare, failed to distinguish between mere advocacy of lawlessness and "advocacy directed to inciting" imminent crime and likely to produce it. "A statute which fails to draw this distinction intrudes upon the freedoms guaranteed by the First and 14th Amendments," said the court, as it voided the Ohio act. New York's criminal...
Under present circumstances it is impossible to establish guidelines to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable political conduct within the university in a way that will appear just and equitable to the interested parties. The significant dividing line is not between faculty and students. Instead, the situation is one where those opposed to the war, and now even more opposed to those aspects of American society they hold responsible for the war, feel a moral compulsion to act in ways that others regard as merely criminal. Faculty and students fall on both sides of this moral and political dividing line, though...
...world's first recipient of an eye transplant involving substantially more than the cornea, left Houston's Methodist Hospital and went home. Dr. Conard Moore had grafted the front part of a donor eye to the remainder of Madden's right eye. Although Madden cannot even distinguish light from dark through the transplant, still he credited Moore with "a miracle...
...taken all possible precautions to prevent injury to anyone on account of his research ought to be able to work without interference. In general, the right of an investigator to do research without interference is well established. In social science research, however it can be difficult to distinguish interference and intimidation from expression of ethical and political positions by persons who feel that regardless of the investigator's intention, his results will be harmful to them...