Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands of René Clair, this yarn might have become a wonderful piece of fun. Bernard Miles and Charles Saunders, who collaborated in writing and directing Pipit, are not quite equal to their idea; and Mr. Miles, who is too young to play the colonel, is not quite up to his role. Now & then the picture, probably the most intensely insular movie the British have yet exported to the U.S., becomes too clumsy or too coy; from beginning to end it is as genteel as rectory crumpets. And though none of the classical Village Types is revealed on the level...
...photon (smallest unit of radiant energy) is equal to the frequency of the wave multiplied by Planck's constant h (6.55 X 10(-27)erg-seconds...
...ultimate agreement--reached in a plenary session tense with the crossfire of eloquent oratory called for a Constitutional clause affirming every man's right to equal educational opportunity, and a section of the by-laws looking forward to "the eventual elimination of segregated educational systems anywhere in the United States" with due regard for "the legal limitations involved." The crucial provision was complete regional autonomy. Despite this, conservative Southern leader Lloyd Teakle of Louisiana State University could privately remark: "I guess we can get this thing through back home. I'll just show them the Constitution and hope...
...because of his race (TIME, March 11, 1946). The new Negro university has a faculty of 85, but it has no law school. Besides, Sweatt planned to continue his court fight for admission to the University of Texas. He was convinced that the new university did not meet the "equal facilities" requirement laid down by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1938. Apparently no one else thought so, either. Said Acting President Allen E. Norton, a Negro: "Institutions are not built in a day. It will take us 25 years. Too many of our own people expect a great Negro...
Trend Reversed. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production (in which the years 1935-39 equal 100) dropped during July, for the fourth month in a row, to 178. This was six points below June and twelve points below the postwar high last March. But the board said that, although it did not yet have final figures, "scattered information" indicated that the downward trend, due "in part to influences of a temporary nature," was reversed in August...