Word: stems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ways are constantly being found to circumvent the intent of the Constitutional guarantees of equality. For many years the Supreme Court, itself, was one of the chief sinners in this respect. It decided on somewhat dubious grounds that the 14th Amendment was meant to protect only those rights that stem from national citizenship, and that most basic civil rights are contingent upon state citizenship. The Court was disposed not to protect civil rights unless they were infringed upon by an official act of a state government--a rare occurrence...
Noble Experiment. International Harvester Co., which did its bit to stem inflation by cutting prices last March, had to raise them again. The rise in the cost of materials had put the manufacture of more than half of Harvester's industrial power products in the red. The 5% price boost would put most Harvester prices about 2% above the precut level...
Gifts of tobacco were ruled acceptable if the girl is not likely to lose her sense of discrimination in the heady atmosphere of a tobacconists. "I mean, I don't want cut plug because it happens to come wrapped in fancy ribbon," said a voter earnestly, champing on the stem...
...Colony turned the Boston-Charleston Ferry over to Harvard. This was the first grant to an endowment fund which is worth just short of $200 millions today. Although most of the 1800 separate funds that make up the endowment are larger and more significant than the two which stem from the 1640 ferry concession, none are more novel, and the growth of the first concession to its current value of $18,000 stands as a miniature example of the rabbit-like multiplication of Harvard's money...
...designed the com pany's administrative building. The air conditioned structure, which resembles a hollyhock in a glass case (see cut), will be 40 feet square, have 15 floors. Alternate floors will be circular, and all floors will be hung in cantilever fashion from a central reinforced-concrete stem which contains the elevators...