Word: named
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard College and all graduate schools except the Business School use such allegedly discriminatory devices on their entrance applications as requests for an applicant's mother's maiden name, the birthplaces of his parents, and his photograph, the results of an investigation by the Massachusetts Committee for Equality in Education claim...
...Percenter. In Mandan, N. Dak., the court dropped a charge of impersonating a federal officer when the defendant explained that, to him, FBI after his name meant full-blooded Indian...
...style no longer Greek and not yet modern, bustled with their comings & goings. Inherited from the War Department in 1947, "New State," as the cab drivers called it, was little used to such pomp & circumstance. Its bare rooms held few memories; its stark corridors suggested no history. Even its name lacked the savor of Quai d'Orsay or Whitehall...
...Sedan. As the manhunt shifted to the south, the cops got another clue -their quarry had walked calmly into a Jacksonville automobile agency, bought a new Pontiac sedan, registered it under the name of Robert Franklin, and vanished again...
...been called the Century of the Common Man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries put together. . . We took it almost for granted that science would confer continual boons and blessings upon us ... In the name of ordered but unceasing progress we saluted the Age of Democracy ... It was to ... tasks of social reform and social insurance that we addressed ourselves . . . The name of Lloyd George will ever be associated in Great Britain with this new departure...