Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several other New England college men received recognition from Freedom House. They were: Schrade F. Radtke, president of a national chemistry fraternity at MIT, who surrendered his chapter's charter because membership was limited to "non-Semitic members of the Caucasian race," Frederic D. Green II, president of an Amherst fraternity which lost its chapter for electing a Negro to membership; and Levi Jackson, first Negro football captain at Yale...
...freshman one mile relay team provided the 10,724 spectators with one of the biggest thrills of the day with their neck and neck race with Yale. Tom McGrath led off, ran a steady race, and passed the stick to John Packard who lost ground to Yale's Ellinger. Rounie Berman then narrowed the Elis' margin to 3 yards. Anchor man Eddie Grutsner made a gallant try for the lead but Yale's Brown finished with a 1 1/2 yard advantage. The winning time was 329.9 with Dartmouth in 3rd place. Berman noted that inexperience in competition seemed...
Cried Sharpe: "There are no finer people than those in [Howell's district]. Why, there's a church every three miles and they all keep their graveyards clean." He told off Goldwasser. "That roaring lion from Judea is a disgrace to the Jewish race. He wouldn't even make catfish bait in the Altamaha River...
...have a look-around. Amid the bloodstained and ash-strewn debris, they put the cost at more than $1,000,000 worth of destroyed property, 1,000 injured and 300-odd killed. In all the misery brought on, however indirectly, by the grasping and oppressive hand of the master race, only one white man had died...
...Ashby, a football fan, declared a holiday to celebrate. The Smith group of teachers and their student followers disdainfully held classes anyway. Later, in a speech to Detroit alumni, President Ashby remarked that most of the student troublemakers in the uproar over the sacking of Akeley came from one race and one locality. The S.A.C.s decided that he was referring to Olivet's Jewish students from New York, demanded at a mass meeting what he meant by "race." "Why, the human race," said Ashby inconclusively, and would say no more...