Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fainted dead away from the heat. And at the practice field where the Olympic athletes themselves were warming up, India's six foot three-inch Gurnam Singh panted and pined openly for his native Patiala (where the temperature hits 120°). Said Singh: "In England 90° is equal to 112° in India. It's the terrible humidity...
...first woman student was admitted in 1920. C.U. is also the only university in the District of Columbia to admit Negroes on an equal basis with whites...
With shouts of triumph, the delegates endorsed a "Declaration of Principles." It condemned "this infamous and iniquitous program [of] equal access to all places of public accommodation for persons of all races, colors, creeds and national origin." Then they nominated South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond for President and Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright for Vice President...
After the Supermanic. British newsreels will have access to 50 reels of black & white which Rank will shoot alongside the color. Price: ?2,000 per company, plus the loan of some cameramen. U.S. newsreels, as usual, will get their coverage by swapping equal footage on other subjects. British Movietonews executives now feel: "It could be worse. We're satisfied we'll get a fair break." British Paramount still feels bitterly against the Olympic Association for peddling an exclusive in the first place, but thinks Rank's arrangements are "very adequate." The Association, with 25% of its costs...
...knows for certain what makes supernovae explode. One theory: when they reach some unstable state their matter "collapses." The electrons circling around the atomic nuclei move inward and combine with the equal number of protons that they find in the nucleus, forming neutrons. These occupy very little space compared with the original atom, and can pass through ordinary matter...