Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initially rejected, such arguments are thus recorded and may later bear fruit. In 1950, for example, the N.A.A.C.P., acting as amicus for a Negro who had been segregated in a railroad dining car, suggested overruling the separate-but-equal doctrine-a point that finally won school desegregation in 1954. Stress "important irrelevancies," Lawyer Charles Abrams of the American Jewish Congress once advised. Amid, he said, should provide "arguments that will salvage the judges' consciences or square with their prepossessions should they lean toward holding...
...point of fact, girls do attend Princeton: ten of them are enrolled in undergraduate language courses and live off-campus in a house with an unlisted phone. This 320-to-1 boy-girl ratio only goes to stress that Princeton is the nation's most conspicuous holdout against women. The objection is no longer theological, or even philosophical. It's just that Princeton considers girls so terribly inconvenient. The university is committed to hold down enrollment to about the present level of 3,000. To let in girls would mean driving out boys-and already four well-qualified...
...University Grants Commission recognizes that "the University should not be treated as though it were some kind of waiting room in which young men and women collect before entering upon a wage-earning career." But India's present educational goals stress promoting quantitative higher education. The possi...
...emphasis to needs of emerging nations. The shift has paid off. McGaughy is working on the plan and initial construction of a new city of 30,000 to replace the Libyan town of Barce, destroyed in a 1963 earthquake. These firms, which constitute a sort of architectural peace corps, stress speed, diplomacy, language fluency and building techniques that can easily be learned by local unskilled labor. Aware that traditional European architectural styles evoke unpleasant memories...
...system of trail markers, which stress simplicity and uniformity, were recently endorsed by the U. S. Forest Service and will be in use in every ski area in the nation this season...