Word: bryson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common problems for ten hours a week." The Carnegie Corporation gave Studebaker no magic wand, but $125,000 to experiment with public forums. Studebaker pioneered a system which turned out droves of Des Moines adults five nights a week for discussions led by Henry Agard Wallace; Lyman Bryson, now Columbia Broadcasting's director of adult education; the late Carroll H. Wooddy, University of Chicago professor of education. When Wallace left Studebaker's staff to become Secretary of Agriculture, Studebaker followed him later as Education Commissioner...
...advice, but as the trend of the requests became clearer, she organized regular services to take care of the most frequent ones. For example, she now gets up a discussion outline every fortnight in collaboration with America's No. 1 expert in current events discussion, Professor Lyman Bryson of Columbia. She supplies monthly and semi-annual news quizzes, special enlargements of TIME maps for platform use and several other services tailored to club needs. In some of our most active clubs she gives a prize each year to the winner of the Current Affairs Contest...
...weeks ago, all three candidates were Roosevelt men. Maybank's opponents were both natives of the plebeian "upcountry" which had ruled South Carolina since 1890. Former Governor Johnston, born in a sharecropper's cabin, once worked as a lint-head in the textile mills. Representative Joseph R. Bryson was once a millhand too. Burnet Maybank called at the White House. When he left, he was authorized to announce that South Carolina would get two more fat power developments: a $28,000,000 project on the Savannah River, southwest of Charleston, another at Lylesford, northwest of Columbia. A week...
Then in a single day two churches were dedicated there, both in North Carolina, whose 10,219 Catholics in a 3,563,174 population give it a lower percentage of Catholics than China. They were built at Bryson City and Waynesville with money raised elsewhere by Father Ambrose Rohrbacher, whose 3,500-square-mile parish has a congregation of only 50 and whose local offerings barely cover his gas bill as he drives about saying Mass in private homes of six other towns. Fifty North Carolina counties have no Catholic church...
...size of the job ahead was indicated by the variety of viewpoints represented on an executive committee which was set up. That committee includes Chairman Finkelstein, Critic Van Wyck Brooks, Educators Lyman Bryson and Lawrence K. Frank, Biophysicist Caryl P. Haskins, Political Scientist Harold D. Lasswell, Sociologist Robert M. Maclver, Physicist Robert J. Havighurst, Philosopher Filmer S. C. Northrop, Catholic Theologians Gerald B. Phelan and Gerald G. Walsh, Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Dean Luther A. Weigle of the Yale Divinity School. There was small hope that such men of good will could do the job before them in time...