Word: poorest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston has the poorest record of any major city in the integration of Negroes into the life of city," Olivia Stokes, an executive in the Massachusetts Council of Churches, asserted last night at the University Lutheran Church...
...POOREST CITY: Laredo, Texas (pop. 60,678), with a median of $2,935 a year...
...series of blurbs about the paper's rejiggering of its comic page ("We want to know what you think"). From the circulation ground lost by Manhattan's three evening papers after going to a dime in 1957, the World-Telegram has made the poorest recovery. Present circulation: 460,883, some 100,000 below the 1957 figure...
Education. For decades, wealthy Commonwealth students have journeyed to Britain's great schools and universities for their education. Since the war, a growing number of scholarships has enabled the poorest and brightest youths to make the journey, boosted the number of Commonwealth students in Britain from 1,000 to 40,000. More and more English students are traveling to study in the Commonwealth, contributing to the interchange of ideas and techniques...
Beetle-Bearing Bankers. Education began for David at New York's Lincoln School, an experiment set up by Columbia University Teachers College to try out the progressive techniques of Philosopher John Dewey. Lincoln's students were consciously drawn from every level of society, from the richest to the poorest. "The progressive education," Rockefeller says today, "was an exhilarating experience...