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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Supreme Court actually has reversed itself on segregation and civil rights decisions, its recent ruling on school segregation is the law and the law should stand. So said Howard Whiteside, trial lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union last night in Lowell House Junior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACLU Attorney Traces History Of High Court Segregation Ruling | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

...only problem this entails is that to shorten the list for a minority is to penalize the majority by the reduced selection. It would seem, though, that most room-seekers would be willing to cut down their percentage chances of finding a place in order to combat even this mild form of racial bigotry. Besides, the University should not be a party to such discriminatory practices, a fact which the University undoubtedly knows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: White Inclemency | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

Most of the music belonging to the Band, which was stored in a room adjoining the stairwell, was destroyed or damaged beyond use by the fire and water. Officials of the Band said yesterday that the music was worth about $10,000, since it included virtually all of the Band's medleys, which were hand copied from exclusive manuscript scores...

Author: By Mark J. Eisner, | Title: Fire Marshal Starts Investigation of Blaze | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

...When I first got here I had to stay up most of the first night convincing my roommate that I wasn't going to burn a cross in the living room or something like that. He wanted to move out," one sophomore from Georgia related. "He was from Connecticut...

Author: By A Southerner, | Title: 'Not Our Kind of People' | 9/30/1958 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a meeting was held in the room of Derek T. Winans '60, Chairman of the Harvard Freedom Council, to discuss pro-N.S.A. strategy. Attending were Chitranjan Kapur '60, a Council member who voted against withdrawal, and Michael R. Lurie '60, President of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Minority Rights...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Student Petition Supports Referendum for N.S.A. | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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