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Word: klux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scandals in Washington, prohibition, and the Ku Klux Klan filled the news pages that warm September day in 1922 when 837 freshmen invaded Cambridge. But while America was caught up in the whirl of the roaring twenties, the University was calmly carrying on the traditions of its past. President Lowell's Harvard was a world of its own, as the men of '26 soon found...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Prohibition, Winning Football, Lowell Dispute Among Memories of 1926's First Three Terms | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...college news had been the publication of President-emeritus Eliot's new book "Harvard Memories," a new Radcliffe administration, and a monkey who had escaped from Anthrop House. Life was getting pretty dull for the Harvard man, until one day he picked up his morning CRIMSON and read "Ku Klux Klan at Harvard--Awaits moment to strike. 'We may be inactive, but our influence is felt' are the Leader's ominous words." The undergraduate began looking over his shoulder to see if he were being followed. President Lowell rose in wrath to expose the miscreants and stamp out any trace...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Prohibition, Winning Football, Lowell Dispute Among Memories of 1926's First Three Terms | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

...slopes away to a mill race that meanders through the campus. One morning last month, sorority row was alive with the news that the Gamma Phi lawn had been desecrated by a seven-foot fiery cross. Sorority members vowed they didn't know who had brought the Ku Klux symbol, but they knew why. One of their sisters, Sophomore Debbie Burgess of Astoria, had been dating a Negro, DeNorval Unthank of Portland, a husky senior in the School of Architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Debbie & Gamma Phi | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Storm Warning. An exciting melodrama that tromps heavily on the Ku Klux Klan without treading on sensitive Southern toes; with Ginger Rogers, Steve Cochran (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 16, 1951 | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Storm Warning. An exciting melodrama that tromps heavily on the Ku Klux Klan without treading on sensitive Southern toes; with Ginger Rogers, Steve Cochran (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

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