Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monsoon rains swept across India, dousing the furnace heat of early summer, 35 million young Indians jammed back into the nation's schools for another year, nearly a million of them under the academic umbrellas of India's-38 huge, state-supported universities. And louder than ever rose the cries of frustration from thousands of rejected university applicants and their anxious parents...
...This paradox of unprecedented numbers demanding university training, when the country's backward economy cannot even absorb all those now being graduated, has created what Indians call their crisis in higher education. It will be a top item for debate at this week's meeting of Indian state ministers of education in New Delhi...
...Orval Faubus offered earlier in the week. Faubus suggested that the board 1) designate two of Little Rock's four high schools (Hall and the all-Negro Horace Mann) for integration; 2) "ask all parents who wish their children to attend integrated schools to come forward and so state"; 3) assign half these children to each of the two integrated schools, though segregating them by sex-all boys, white and Negro, in one, all girls, white and Negro, in the other. The Governor's "solution," which the Arkansas Gazette called a "bad political joke," would have sent hundreds...
...stand for the principle of separation of church and state as a principle to be applied for the benefit of all churches and all creeds...
...spirits. Committed by conscience to this proposition, would you, in a position of public trust, respect the right of others to consume such beverages? Could Government funds be used for this purpose, as in official cocktail parties? Would liquor industries be shut down? . . . Would you strive to make [present state anti-liquor] laws federal, thus forcing your own religious views on all your fellow citizens...