Word: dover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delaware is split. Except for one school district (Dover), the two southern counties have done little toward desegregation. Eight school districts in New Castle, the state's northern county, have varying plans to end segregation gradually. Wilmington pupils in the first six grades will be mixed this month; in nearby Newark, only the junior high and high school will be integrated...
...larger scale last Christmas, but the project was held up by technical difficulties. Not all the problem are solved even now. France and Britain use different standards, and both of them differ from the European norm of a 625-line image. Four "converter" stations have been set up: at Dover, to deal with programs coming into Britain; in Paris, where pictures are converted to the French system; and at Lopik, The Netherlands, and Baden, Germany, where the picture goes to 625 lines. An even tougher problem has been mastering the variety of electrical voltages used by the various nations. Altogether...
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...result of the appointment Judge Cabot has resigned as moderator in Dover because the resolve setting up the commission requires the appointment of persons who do not hold either appointive or elective office...
...guineas in costs.) Readers flooded the London press with outraged letters; critics wrote denunciations of Butler's work; students daubed one of his other sculptures with paint. And when word got around that Butler hoped his Prisoner would be erected on some such site as the cliffs of Dover, 42 members of Parliament signed a motion "that this House views with dismay the proposal...