Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the Negro race, and one who has held professorships in the state colleges of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and Florida, I was intrigued by the analytical article "Double Standard" [TIME...
...Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands), thus became the first Negro appointed to the second highest court in the federal system. Able Governor Hastie got his advancement in the same week that a college classmate got a sharp reverse: Manhattan Councilman Ben Davis, the other outstanding Negro member of the Amherst Class of 1925, was one of the eleven convicted Communist leaders...
Strong-minded men stated strong-minded opinions, and for the most part they differed only in detail and in intensity. Rear Admiral Ralph Ofstie, in his younger days one of the Navy's hottest pilots, a wartime carrier commander, Navy member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Japan and of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group at Bikini, declared that atomic area bombing would be little more than "random mass slaughter" and militarily unsound. Strategic bombing, he said, did not have a decisive effect in World War II. Cried Ofstie, "It is time that strategic bombing...
...They acted like gentlemen most of the time, not like soccer players," one Dartmouth team member remarked to a mate at the close of yesterday's game. He was right, too; there isn't a better way to explain why the Crimson soccer team was upset, 3 to 0, by Dartmouth on the Business School Field...
...Harvard Co-operative Society, a local merchandising and valeteria outfit, held what amounted to a meeting Wednesday afternoon. Thirty leisured students attended the affair, although the Board of Directors had previously extended a blanket invitation to anyone with a Coop card. As each member entered the Harvard Hall gathering-room, he was presented with a red treasurer's report, a white monograph on the Society's history, and a blue manual of by-laws, a color scheme cleverly designed to prepare the audience for the patriotic fervor to follow...