Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CRIMSON articles have dealt only with the explicit and charged violations of academic freedom. The survey has not mentioned the hundreds of colleges and universities where such violations have been non-existent or of a normally petty nature. The strength of the opposition in even the most flagrant cases also shows that the condition of academic freedom is far from despairing. Yet the current problems of academic freedom are serious, as the evidence compiled in the survey does show, and they exist in a frame of reference that is world-wide: the challenge of Communism and, along with...
...fees from the transit lines for the use of their streets. In Boston, the MTA must pay for the use of all subways and elevated structures because the 'Boston Transit Department built and owns them; the MTA pays the city of Boston over $2,000,000 yearly. The most flagrant inconsistency is that the MTA, though State owned must pay the State for the use of the Cambridge-Park Street tunnel...
While Russian troops were parading through Red Square in Moscow yesterday, their sympathizers halfway around the world had already completed their May Day festivities. Wellosley College girls, in the most flagrant example of eastern college radicalism over displayed, ran their hoop race on the day before the sinister first...
Last Wednesday Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced a new policy for the National Military Establishment which, if properly carried out, will greatly increase the chances for interesting and skilled jobs for Negroes in the armed forces, thus correcting one of the most flagrant faults of military policy. Heretofore, Negro troops have been assigned to all-Negro units or to lowly service jobs in organizations attached to white units. While Negro units will be retained, qualified colored personnel will presumably be assigned to duties in other organizations...
...Flagrant Violations. The treaties, said the U.S. State Department, have been "flagrantly violated" by Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria. The three satellites have ignored the clauses limiting their armed forces, both by building up regular armies larger than permitted and recruiting "irregular" formations, such as "frontier guards," militia, etc. They have consistently sabotaged the "property rights" of the Western nations, guaranteed under the treaties, notably by expropriating U.S. and British oil companies. Above all, in a long series of political and religious persecutions, they have trampled on the treaty clauses in which they promised to all their citizens "without distinction...