Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained to be done before official U.S. attitudes toward the Japanese "indigenous population" reflected democratic ideals. G.I.s are still not allowed to entertain Japanese friends in U.S. billets. Osaka's big new hotel, which houses U.S. officers and civilians, has a special side entrance for Japanese. Washrooms in Tokyo office buildings taken over by the Occupation forces are still marked: Officers, Enlisted Men, Japanese...
...students should be "pauperes et indigentes," and set an upper limit of ?3 6s. 8d. on their annual income, but few real "pauperes" ever got in. For centuries, most of the appointments have gone to the sons of influential fathers. *Another group, the "Founder's Kin," long had special privileges, e.g., they could stay in Winchester until they were 25, but ultimately they became so numerous that the privileges were abolished. Unofficial test of a boy's relationship to Founder Wykeham: crashing a wooden platter down on his head. If the platter broke before the head had enough...
...sound echoed for the first time in more than 2,000 years through a free land in which the People of the Covenant could walk in safety and peace. The Labor government of non-Orthodox Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made provision for an Orthodox observance. Cantors and special prayer books were dispatched to Israel's army bases. The police detoured all traffic away from Tel Aviv's great synagogue on Allenby Street, while inside, black & white robed rabbis prayed and chanted. In the Tel Aviv area alone some 400 synagogues were filled and in the pious Manshieh...
...booklet, the average Southern editor is not as anti-Negro as he sometimes sounds; he is just trying to give readers "what he thinks they want." The council's counsel : give them what the editor thinks they ought to have. "The responsible editor . . . need not indulge in special pleading for the Negro. He need merely apply the same news values . . . the same respect for accuracy, the same sense of fair play and good taste...
...other networks, only CBS even tried special competition. In the hour-long spot opposite Berle, CBS was trying an all-Negro show called Uptown Jubilee, a succession of variety acts enlivened by Maxine Sullivan and a visually exciting ballet troupe...