Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmers and herders, and therefore are in general poor. By applying the term "greaser" to them you apply it to a large minority, if not to a majority of the population of the State. To these people the term is obnoxious as is "nigger" to a Negro, and with equal reason, since it is an expression of ignorant racial contempt on the part of the self-styled superior Anglo-Americans. . . . The term "greaser" is very seldom used out here. . . . Spanish American people of the Southwest . . . are as friendly and pleasant a people as one could ask for and being mostly...
...they come from schools in the West which do not directly prepare them for work in Eastern colleges, it is not too much to assume that during several years of training they have learned the fundamentals of their own language and its use. Their instruction may not have been equal to that of the preparatory schools, but if they succeeded in ranking among the superior minority of their classmates, they must have learned considerable English in the course of their education, since that is a subject which dominates almost every curriculum...
...disclose. It was supposed to provide, if and when Realmleader Hitler bags the Saar, that 1) Germany will buy the Saar mines owned by the French Government for 900,000,000 francs (approximately $59,400,000) plus large payments in coal; and 2) Saar citizens will enjoy "equal rights" regardless of race, language or religion. Since the Germans have always known that they would have to buy the mines to get them, and since France has always maintained that she would protect Saar citizens from wanton oppression, the "agreement" amounted to a facing of facts...
...back up his results, and he does not call the averages markedly significant until they are well above 7.5 per 25. The lumped results of five subjects comprising 13,750 trials show an average of 9. The improbability that these results could occur by chance, Dr. Rhine feels, is equal to the improbability suggested by Physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, viz., if an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might accidentally write all the books in the British Museum...
...Bachelor of Science degree should be restored to an equal rank with the Bachelor of Arts. A concrete and useful distinction should be made on the basis of laboratory study, and nothing else. There is no reason why Harvard should not lead the way in abolishing the old concept and adopting the new and logical one. Harvard can set up a plan which will have some foundation in reason and will not be regarded as one of the most cumbersome of anachronistic heritages...