Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably be removed from the list of Lend-Lease shipments after Jan. 1, 1945, and put on the list of items British metal fabricators may purchase direct from U.S. mills. Thus, between V-E day and V-A day, British exporters will get a fair start in the competitive race with U.S. exporters for world markets...
Professor Matthiessen will lead the forum-entitled "Democracy in The Harvard Community," which is scheduled to begin at 7:30 o'clock in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. "Democracy begins at home," he points out, in calling for liberalism in the college as well as in America. "Race prejudice, lack of tolerance--all these can exist in a college community...
...plant worker, he had asked both Franklin Roosevelt and War Secretary Stimson for a chance to fight. Said he: "My people are Americans, even though I was born in Japan and can't be a citizen because my skin is yellow. This war isn't one race against another-it is a war of ideas and principles. I want to fight the Japanese fascists...
...pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North will find it easy to secure a large following . . . unless reasonable and proper concessions to the colored people are made." Because of such reason ableness, many...
...putting it into words was in his famed dispute with H. G. Wells. In 1915, when feeling in England was bitter against he U.S. because of American policy in World War I, Wells suddenly launched on the unsuspecting James his devastating attack: George Boon, The Mind of the Race. This volume contained a parody of James's style, with this deadly description: "His novel ... is like a church lit, but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten...