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Word: photographic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court might construe the photograph requirement as an "inquiry concerning the race, religion, color, or national origin of a person seeking admission" and declare it contrary to the law. But, before the state hails Harvard into court, or, waving a moral banner, brow-beats the University into submission, it should inquire into the real reasons for the "inquiry." It would find that the admissions office does use information from the photographs for discriminatory purposes. Discrimination, however, is in favor of the so-called underprivileged groups whose welfare was the original pretext for the FEPA...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diligence Misguided | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...hearing, the Discrimination Commission issued a directive against all photograph requirements. Nolan reported that since then every institution except Harvard has complied with the directive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State to View Pictures' Use In Admission | 12/14/1957 | See Source »

...three jets of aluminum pellets shoot into the near-vacuum like shot from three shotguns. The Air Force announcement is none too clear about what happened, but Maurice Dubin, physicist in charge of the project, thinks that some of the pellets reached the speed of 40,000 m.p.h. A photograph taken of the explosion showed meteorlike trails whose speed could be measured by a fast-moving shutter on the camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Defending Meteors | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...Pity She's a Lady of the Evening" have neither the simplicity nor the zip of the original. It is too late now, but the HDC could have combined a tasteful community-wide promotion of the play with a provocative and money-making contest. Using an eye-catching photograph of the heroine and barring all English concentrators from the game, the contest posters might have looked something like this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Tis Indeed... | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...first time in broadcasting history, all three networks pooled their talent on NBC's Wide Wide World last week to help TV celebrate its first decade. The result was a kind of family photograph album-a little faded, and brown with nostalgia. There was more fun than focus as The Fabulous Infant paraded 90 minutes of TV's past. The laconic Frank Costello grumbled again to the Kefauver committee: "Under no condition will I testify until I'm well enough," and Ed Wynn goggled on-screen to explain why his girl is so fastidious: "Her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The First Ten Years | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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