Word: parley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day at a truce parley, Krugersdorp authorities explained that a new regulation for "voluntary registration of native women" did not mean that they had to carry passes. But in the parley, the aroused strikers did not sit down, in the traditional gesture of humility, when the whites addressed them. It caused one police official to complain: "I have never yet been to a meeting where the natives stand when you speak to them. It's most disrespectful...
During his stay in Europe, Professor Schwinger served as an American delegate to the atomic conference at Basel, Switzerland, and was one of ten physicists presenting papers to the parley. Professor Schwinger's paper reviewed work in the new field of electrodynamics...
...members of the Harvard Young Progressives accompanied Chi and Roberts to a parley with Whouley at Hazen's yesterday afternoon. Max Bluestone 2G, spokesman for the group, demanded that Whouley explain why Chi and Roberts were turned down when they applied for part time jobs which later went to white students...
...principal papers presented at the parley, five were read by American physicists, one of which was by Professor Schwinger dealing with experimental techniques for studying the atom...
...parley, which was attended by representatives of 36 colleges from Maine to Delaware, unanimously elected Arthur W. Bingham '51 permanent New England Regional Director...