Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the old plan, personnel contributed five to eight percent of their salaries with the college contributing an equal amount...
...have improved the result. The second movement got off to a fine start, then wandered with little purpose, but came to a haunting close whose effectiveness a third movement would have impaired. A major virtue of the piece was the restraint of the piano writing. The piano was an equal participant in the proceedings, and not, as in many such works, an overpowering mass to be fought against by the two weaker instruments...
Since Reconstruction the U.S. has had criminal statutes providing fines of up to $5,000 and imprisonment of up to ten years for persons acting to deprive others of their rights to equal protection under the law-including the right to vote in federal elections. These laws have been generally ineffective for the simple reason that Southern juries would not vote for conviction. The U.S. also has civil statutes under which a private citizen can file suit to protect his own civil rights. But these too have been ineffective, mostly because of a requirement that the litigant go through...
There is a distinct possibility that the same thing might happen on Saturday, especially since Princeton's team certainly approaches the Crimson in overall ability. Also, the fact that Princeton, Yale and Harvard all have, statistically speaking, equal chance of taking the Ivy and Big Three titles means that the match will be extremely hard fought. Moreover, both teams are at full strength...
...Till kidnapping case and murder of two NAACP leaders in Mississippi were flagrant examples of the absence of "equal protection of the laws" for the Negro citizen. In many less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints...