Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Place Like Home. In Cleveland, William S. Wellman's pigeon, entered in a 100-mile race, came in last - nine years later...
...Oxford, Ohio, Negro Harrison Dillard set a new kind of record by winning his 67th consecutive race in collegiate competition. The old record-holder for consecutive triumphs: Notre Dame's once great two-miler, Greg Rice...
...some 2,000,000,000 people in the world and around 2,200,000,000 cases of worm infestation (some people have more than one kind of worms), reported the Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Norman R. Stoll. Most worms thrive in the tropics, home of half the human race, and a reservoir of food and raw materials for the rest of the world...
Most colleges piously deny that they set racial or religious quotas-but just the same, many ask their applicants to specify their race and religion. This week President Mildred McAfee Horton announced that Wellesley College would henceforth omit these questions on its application forms-to free Wellesley from "even the appearance of unfair discrimination...
...vivid scenes and well-remembered dialogue. Yet, say his editors, his book has not been used in any of the standard histories of the Reconstruction. One reason: historians have considered the Reconstruction as "a series of political transactions, rather than as the story of a people defeated, a race enfranchised, and a society overturned...