Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...claimed that the Civil Rights Act was "rammed through" Congress by legislators interested in swaying the Negro vote in Northern urban-industrial states. Thurmond delayed the process last summer by filibustering before the Senate for 24 hours...
Individual members of the faculty have been "informally discussing" the creation of a committee to aid Cambridge in its Urban Renewal Program, John W. Teele '27 said yesterday...
...that the University faculty will not work as part of any Cambridge agency. The city has a planning office and 15 or so departments, he maintained, and "the only function of an outside group would be advisory." The Planning Coordinator added that the final design work on the Urban Renewal Projects would be done by the city...
...Tear it down. Cut the gab," cried an impatient Cambridge citizen behind us, one of the large crowd that assembled at Rogers Block, behind M.I.T., yesterday afternoon to witness the symbolic destruction of the first slum building of the urban renewal program...
...which had sheltered twenty families since the turn of the century, was stripped to its bare essentials. Now spotlighted, its windows removed, it stood trembling in the cold night air, awaiting the coup de grace. Two powerful cables hung from its roof. A sacrificial offering to the cause of urban renewal, the building held the audience in awed attention...