Word: classed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Park, Ill. (pop. 63,175) is one of Chicago's bigger & better suburban bedroom towns, a community which proudly labels itself "the middle-class capital of the world." Its houses are mostly a solid, two-and three-story type built 20 years ago, and its residents are likewise solid and respectable...
...druggist whispered to his customers several months ago. The newcomer to the neighborhood around Chicago and East Avenues was indeed a Negro. He was also one of the nation's ablest chemists. Percy Levon Julian A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard and the University of Vienna), the only Negro in his class at DePauw University, where he was valedictorian (and a classmate of David Lilienthal), is the highly paid chief of soyabean research for Chicago's Glidden Co. In that job and earlier, Percy Julian, the grandson of an Alabama slave, had made world-famous chemical discoveries. They ranged from processes...
...amateur atom fans, a group of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory offered last week a "continuous cloud chamber." Based on a ten-year-old but neglected idea, it is simple enough, say the Brookhaven men, to be built and operated by the teacher of a high-school science class...
...night last week, a husky young man & woman from the Soviet zone of Germany, a coffee-skinned youth from India, a trim girl from Finland and a swarthy boy from France were hard at work studying the Bible. In the chapel at the rear of the house, a music class was in progress; a Berliner was at the piano, an English girl played the viola; a boy from Silesia whittled away at the violin. In a small side room a pink-cheeked Yugoslav and a chubby Hollander were boning up on the Epistles. The International Bible Training Institute was beginning...
Also, taking a long-range view, the student body at the College now has become more heterogeneous in nature and origin than it was 50 years ago. The 1100 students in each incoming class now come from diverse educational, geographic, social, economic, religious, and racial backgrounds. Their varied standards of value are more likely to clash, and their college-time troubles are more numerous than in the days of President Eliot. Clearly an advising problem is created here, as well as by the factors mentioned above...