Word: faired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West has also dabbled in smellies, but seems to have outgrown them before they ever had a chance. Scented motion pictures were tried at the Swiss Pavilion of the New York World's Fair, one film aired 37 different smells in 35 minutes. One of the technicians responsible, a Swiss named Hans Laube, stayed on in the U.S., but in 1946 disgustedly left for Europe since, he said, there were no takers for the smellies in America...
During the current session a group of organizations petitioned the State Legislature for a measure that would end discrimination in Massachusetts educational institutions. Drafted as Senate 133, the bill came before the Education Committee on Monday, and, according to its backers, should "secure fair educational practice and equality of educational opportunity by preventing discrimination in education because of religion, race color, or national origin...
Legislation against discrimination can be successful; there is no reason why a fair practices act can not work for education in Massachusetts as well as it does for business in the State. No measure will satisfy everyone involved. But a rewritten Senate 133 or a measure drawn with a more careful delegation of power, and more specific reference to the true jurisdiction of the planned committee could achieve its purpose without harm to educational institutions. Though the present New York anti discrimination law, in effect for the last six months, is the only precedent for this action, it helps show...
Williams College, Andover, and Wheelock College also went on record against the fair education practices bill...
Legislation to enforce fair educational practices in Massachusetts' schools and colleges is unnecessary, unworkable, and "would put an intolerable burden on universities' admissions offices," Oscar M. Shaw '26, Counsel for the Corporation, told the General Court's Education Committee yesterday on behalf of Harvard University...