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Word: hemans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia; there was no telling who might be a Carolina sympathizer. There had been friction between the two factions since the day Pitchfork Ben Tillman, the state's rip-snorting governor of the 1890s, branded the university as a center of snobbery and helped found Clemson, a "heman" agricultural college with a strong emphasis on military training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Thursday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Claude Heman Barlow, 72, one of the world's leading authorities on schistosomiasis, had collected the snails in Egypt's labyrinthine irrigation ditches. An expert in Egypt's ministry of public health, he deliberately caught the disease in 1944 during experiments to protect the U.S. against infestation by returning servicemen. The only effective cure for him was injections of tartar emetic, which left him nauseated for eight months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Out of the Ditches | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Since 1929, stubborn-jawed Dr. Claude Heman Barlow has been studying bilharziasis, a disease of the bladder caused by snail-borne parasites common in Egypt. In 1944, he infected himself with the parasites (TIME, Dec. 6, 1946). The experiment cost him his own health, but it gave science some valuable clues for controlling the disease. This week Dr. Barlow, 71, received the Medal of Merit from President Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Reward | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...Heman Marion Sweatt, a studious mail-carrier, who was refused admission to the University of Texas law school at Austin 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 25 Years to Go | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Neither Heman Sweatt nor the N.A.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Test Case | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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