Word: eighth
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...schools. The decision that has long been used by Southern states as the guide on segregation is Plessy v. Ferguson, a transportation case. It arose on June 7, 1892, when Homer Adolph Plessy bought a ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad, from New Orleans to Covington, La. Plessy, seven-eighths white and one-eighth Negro, took a seat in the white coach on the segregated train. When he refused to move, he was taken off and jailed. The case reached the Supreme Court in 1896, and the court ruled that Louisiana's law, calling for "equal but separate" facilities...
...Captive in Korea. In an even voice, he told of 33 months as a prisoner, exposed the shockingly calculated inhumanity of his captors. Deane's book and S. L. A. Marshall's The River and the Gauntlet, the story of the U.S. Eighth Army's defeat in North Korea, would make sober Christmas presents, but they are two books of 1953 that thoughtful Americans can still profit from. Not so distressing, and highly informative as well as entertaining, was Admiral Leslie Stevens' Russian Assignment, a critically urbane look at the Russian scene during...
While in complete agreement with your desire for an eighth House at Harvard, I must take violent and wrathful exception to your remarks about "the Claverly problem." What Problem? What Stigma? Obviously this is an instance of inaccurate reporting (highly dangerous in view of your national circulation) based, perhaps, on actual interviews with Claverly residents who like to eat breakfast and hate the long walk to the dining halls. It is well known that consumers of breakfasts are not trustworthy...
...wild, sleepless days, the men of the 24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
Make Way for Youth (Sat. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Eighth season of Don Large choral group...