Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Western genetics does not maintain that "backward" races are backward because of hereditary deficiencies. All humans, say the geneticists, have about the same genetic potentialities. Individual deficiencies come from defects of culture, early nutrition, etc. But such details of accepted science are not likely to be expounded by Soviet propagandists. Western genetics (primacy of heredity) can be made to sound like a "master race" doctrine, and Lysenkoism (primacy of environment) can be made to sound like light and hope-out of Soviet Russia...
...widower with three children, Percy likes to race his sailboat on Lake Michigan, take home movies, and play golf. He is also working towards a law degree at night school ("a businessman can't safely make a move today without consulting a lawyer"), as part of the job of keeping Bell & Howell growing. Says Percy: "No company can stand still. We set our sights always a little ahead of what we think we can reach...
Jerry German and Bob Burke will race the 220-yard freestyle, and Bob Burke and Shop Brown should fight it out in the 100-yard...
...first-termers from across the Charles looked like competition in only two events--the dive and the 200-yd. freestyle relay, both of which they won. The latter, a thrilling race from start to finish, grew more exciting as the Crimson almost came from behind...
...cinders, Harvard superiority faded. Only in the 40-yard dash were Mikkola's runners able to keep up with their opponents. In this race, Pat McCormick, Murray Pearlstoin, an ineligible transfer student, and Harvey Thayer grabbed 1-2-3, although some observers thought Thayer had hit the yarn first...