Word: origin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight in Congress is threatening civil rights legislation. The Administration program provided for a six-member commission to investigate claims of rights denied because of race, color, religion, or national origin. A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee has eliminated the word "religion" because it might open the way to other amendments giving the commission authority in matters not related to the intent of the original program...
...named Emily. All goes very well for a while ("In England the Primate takes precedence of all but Royal Dukes"). But Emily, no ordinary chimp, knows how to read. She takes a course in the British Museum, and she thinks she had better start at the beginning with The Origin of Species. Soon, except that she likes to enter her flat by climbing the drainpipe, and that she has a humble and loving heart (at the mission school she had heard the hymn, "He that is low need fear no fall"). Emily is indistinguishable from other intellectuals...
...Origin of Specious. In London, in the name of the staid Lord's Day Observance Society, hoaxers sent out calendars with pictures of sketchily clad young women and a verse under the January pinup...
Gold has also demonstrated the possibility that dark regions on the moon are great dust layers, rather than massive flows of lava and has advanced an explanation of their origin. These dust clouds could have been formed, he said, by the constant bombardment of meteors pulverizing the surface...
Lefaber, a Hungarian by origin, would be especially important in the process of selection, Taylor said. The committee would present its candidate for review by the College Admissions Board, in the normal admissions manner...