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This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obiter Dicta: The Bard & the Bar | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

...Negro leader of that time. Washington maintained that the Negro should accept second-class citizenship in return for the assurance that whites would give the Negroes industrial training and jobs. DuBois became part of the Negro outcry against this compromising policy. "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or tittle less than our full manhood rights," he wrote. "We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a free-born American: political, civil and social; and until we get these rights, we will never cease to protest and assail the ears of America. The battle we wage...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: William E. B. DuBois: 1868-1963 | 11/19/1963 | See Source »

...store. The buses lured customers back, but provided a slow and hot ride. Obediah thought of a subway. The Leonards acquired five old Washington, D.C., streetcars, spiffed them up with stainless steel and new seats, installed air conditioning, and carved a double-track tunnel between store and Jot: This week the M (for Marvin) & O (for Obediah) subway-"the first subway south of the Mason-Dixon line"-began service, delivering as many as 500 passengers every 3½ minutes to the store's basement. Price per ride: nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: A Private Subway | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

Perhaps the situation would automatically improve if all lecturers stopped regarding the lecture as a means of vast quantities of information perhaps an even surer improvement would be to prohibit note-taking in lectures, for then the student would to follow the lecture closely so could jot down the important points , yet he would not get so wound up in voluminous note-taking that too busy to really listen...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: The Lecture System: Its Value at Harvard | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

...know there is not one jot of evidence for the implication that people by the tens of thousands might actually be killed by United Sates testing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter to the Editor | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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