Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admissions policy makers in northern colleges did not have enough problems, the shut-down of high schools in Charlottsville, Norfolk, and Little Rock has raised an issue in higher education circles which will not be easily solved. In brief, the policy makers must decide if they will continue to admit or reject applicants from these schools on their individual merits, or, in the interests of supporting the Supreme Court, reject them all on the grounds of inadequate preparation. Such rejection, it it felt, would underscore the need for reopening the schools and integrating them...
However, Harvard is not the only college considering the question of supporting the Court's decision. Should the Ivy League colleges or, on an even wider basis, "northern schools," agree to shut out the applicants from the three high schools, there would be a significant road-block to good higher education ahead of southern students in closed high schools...
...both settlers and scientists knew that something very strange lived in the Serra dos Dourados. In 1955 an unusual frost hit northern Parana, destroying jungle fruit and game. Starving Indians crept out of the jungle to pillage the vegetable garden of the Fazenda Santa Rosa, a backwoods farmhouse. The frightened manager sent for help from the Indian Protection Service...
According to Dr. Lougee's theory, the northern shore of this sea was a towering ice cliff. Great icebergs broke away and drifted toward the outlet, a wide estuary that led to the Gulf of Mexico. When they melted, their embedded stones dropped to the bottom, creating the many glacial deposits that have puzzled other glaciologists...
...ordered Northwest off the Seattle-Portland-Honolulu run in favor of Pan Am, scrappy Don Nyrop flew into Washington, rallied so much political support that Ike returned the route to Northwest, admitted that he had "made an error." Last month Northwest, whose domestic runs had been limited to Northern states, opened a fat Chicago-Florida route, worth $13.5 million a year...