Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College Observatory staff went to war practically on mass. The highly diversified are of modern war-face had great need of their specialized talents; and while the Observatory found itself almost deserted, they helped out-race enemy scientists in the perfection of such technical, but still immensely vital, devices as Loran and aerial photography...
...Civil War social and financial revolution came a change to ostentation and opulence as a way of life for the nation's "leaders" and an ideal for the masses. Looking back at a once-scorned Europe, special arbiters plumped for aristocratic living, and the nation clambered to imitate. The race kept up for a while, petered out just before World War I, and shifted then suddenly and violently to short, dresses, simpler dinner-parties, and fewer chaperons. During the twenties, manners became big business for the Posts and Dixes, and America's attention shifted from the age-old knife-fork...
Never, never have I read of such terrible intolerance as in the case of the Columbians [TIME, Nov. 11]. To have race prejudice is bad enough in my opinion; but to openly "encourage our people to think in terms of race, nation, and faith," is too much for any person with moral and human decency to stand. I am appalled! Can this really be "the Land of the Free...
...facts are that if the South is left alone to solve the [race] problem we can expect just such hoodlums as the Ku Kluxers, Columbians . . . or Huey Long to solve it. . . . If we are to have freedom and a democracy it will come through Government interference and outside support to the few really good leaders such as Governor Arnall...
...home out front last week. Many a West Coast horse fan, convinced that betting on Willie is as good a way as any to win, bet on everything he sent to the post. They did it without Willie's blessing; like Jacobs, Willie seldom bets on a horse race, and never more than $10. (A typical paddock conversation goes like this: Owner: "Well, Willie, how do you like my horse today?" Willie: "I like him a little." Owner: "Good bet to win?" Willie: "He might...