Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devastation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This country with its concentrated industrial centers is entirely vulnerable to such weapons; nor can we count on, or even expect, effective countermeasures. Unless strong action is taken within the near future toward a positive control, this country will be drawn into an armament race which will inevitably end in catastrophe for all participants...
...said that he could not interfere with a "private enterprise." But, the President added testily, "one of the first steps taken by the Nazis when they came to power was to forbid the public appearance of artists and musicians whose religion or origin was unsatisfactory to the 'master race...
Though Coach Jaakko Mikkola praised the Dartmouth squad, he attributed some of the margin to the fact that his men had been running less than a month. After the race, Vince Moriarity, NROTC, was chosen as captain for the remaining meets of the year...
...most portentous news since that date has been the abundant evidence that mankind in general remains insufficiently aware of his predicament. There has been much talk about how to get the new monster into an unbreakable cage-and few admissions that the real monster is the human race...
...schools last week were still quivering from the effect of race prejudice in their midst (TIME, Oct. 8). While agitated parents and educators looked for causes and solutions, Local 555 of the (C.I.O. ) Teachers Union cited these words from Geoffrey Chaucer as the kind of thing that was at least partly to blame. On the rounds that such writings violated "the fundamental conceptions of Americanism," the Union demanded a ban in all new York schools of the famed Canterbury Tales...