Word: racially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wolf Cukersvein, a 35-year-old, Warsaw-born doctor who left Poland because, as a Jew, he could not gain admission to a university; had fled anti-Semitism in Italy; settled in Toulouse as a radiologist: "Even there I ... could not get work because of racial prejudice...
Soviets have promised to help my scientific research. I have no particular beliefs but go willingly . . . because I know that I won't be hindered by racial prejudice...
...convention of the North Carolina Baptists in Asheville there was no Pastor Rabun. Pressed for time during their first day's session, the 1,000-odd delegates rushed through unanimous approval of their Social Service Committee report without realizing it contained the statement that ". . . segregation of believers . . . into racial or class churches is a denial of the New Testament affirmation of the equality of all believers at the foot of the Cross, and alien to the spirit of Christ, the Head of the church...
...survived the scourges of malaria and dysentery. Worn out and sick, he chartered a ship, loaded it with the products of some 20 years' research in the East-a priceless harvest of botanical and zoological specimens, cartological and climatic studies, thousands of pages of native histories and racial researches. One day out, the ship took fire and sank, a total loss...
Died. Helen Bannerman, eightyish, shy, retiring author and original illustrator of The Story of Little Black Sambo, which has delighted moppets for nearly half a century (though it has lately been cried down by the Association for Childhood Education as a fomenter of racial discrimination), has been translated into many a foreign language, was once published simultaneously in the U.S. in 15 different pirated editions; in Edinburgh, Scotland...