Word: pittinger
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Died. John T. Scopes, 70, Tennessee schoolteacher and central figure in the celebrated 1925 "monkey trial"; of cancer; in Shreveport, La. Scopes challenged a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. The trial produced one of the great confrontations of U.S. legal history, pitting Clarence...
Six other houses initiate football schedules today, with afternoon clashes pitting Leverett against Winthrop, Dunster against Kirkland, and Mather against Quincy.
More than half of the enlisted men objected to taking part in the war because they believe it is a race war pitting whites against nonwhites or because they flatly don't want to fight against dark skin people. Only 37 per cent agreed that they were fighting a common...
Eroded Ground. It was in dusty, sweltering Delano that la huelga began. A small group of predominantly Mexican-American farm workers led by Chavez met in a Roman Catholic church hall and voted to strike the vineyards. La huelga divided California's farm communities, pitting townsman against townsman. It...
THE more implacable Capitol Hill opponents of the Viet Nam War have for years sought-with no success-to turn the dispute into a conflict pitting Congress's authority to declare war v. the President's right as Commander in Chief to wage war. Now, because the Nixon...