Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plastic Lung. To the surgeon the heart is the center of a familiar but complex machine (see diagram). Used blood, from which all the body's tissues have removed nourishing oxygen, returns through the two great veins (superior and inferior vena cava) to the right upper chamber (auricle). It empties from there through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. This muscular chamber contracts and pushes the blood through the pulmonary valve and pulmonary artery to the lungs to pick up fresh oxygen. Reddened blood returns to the left auricle, passes through the mitral valve into the left ventricle...
King charged that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was closing the doors of opportunity to Negroes by arousing the antagonisms of whites. Negroes that belong to it are the "real Uncle Toms"-those that foist themselves upon white society because they feel inferior. "It is impossible," said King, "for the ordinary Negro to feel close to the N.A.A.C.P. save only in a superficial sense...
...freshman fencing team, more than refreshed after Wednesday night's convincing 17-10 win over Brandeis, will be extremely ready for this afternoon's Yale match. The Yardlings, after three consecutive losses to supposedly inferior an unexpected, but still gratifying, win over the Judges...
Good & Dead. "When local whites criticize the South for racial segregation," asks Rowan, "is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?" Rowan says he found "almost no citizen who will say directly that he considers the Indian racially inferior, or inherently a loafer or a drunkard." Yet the director of an Indian hospital at White Earth, Minn. told him: "The feeling in some communities is that the only good Indians are dead Indians." In many areas Indians are denied admission to hospitals, refused police protection, turned down when they apply for social-welfare...
...Broadway movement is perhaps the most important development in American arts in many years. American theatre is respected all over the world as inferior to none. This reputation is in large measure due to the courage and willingness to experiment of American actors, producers, and playwrights. Add the only real opportunity for this sort of experimentation is on off-Broadway...