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...Dunster vs. Berkeley...
Perhaps the most important in this series is Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of a Louisiana statute requiring separate but equal railroad carriages for whites and Negroes. Plessy's appeal was to the Fourteenth Amendment, which provides that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of any citizen of the United States . . . nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of its laws." In its decision, the Court ruled that the Amendment "could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color...
...complicated changes of altitude and still let the blades ride free (to kill gyroscopic effect and preserve a balance of lift), supported horizontally only by centrifugal force. The hub was an engineer's nightmare. There was only one way to ferret out its many early imperfections. Sikorsky had the VS-300 tied down with stout ropes to keep it from rising more than a few feet. Then he climbed into the seat in his dark business suit and upturned fedora, started the engine and began?as he had in a Russian pasture 30 years before?trying to learn...
...climate a little social biography is necessary. With a population of 125,000 Cambridge is the fourth largest city in the Commonwealth. Founded in 1630 it grew slowly for 200 years, then mushroomed with the great influx of Irish immigrants in 1840. In this period the still evident "town vs. gown" feeling was especially bitter. It wasn't long before Irish leaders organized under the Democratic banner and machine politics subverted local government for its own ends...
...tackle football this afternoon, Winthrop will meet Eliot, and Lowell will play Adams, both games starting at 3 p.m. The soccer card today includes Dunster vs. Dudley at 2:15 p.m., followed by a Leverett Kirkland match one hour later. Touch football today pairs the same foes...