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Word: claxton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed U. S. educator has sat in the office which Dr. Cooper now occupies. The first was Henry Barnard whose fame in his native Connecticut equals that of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. Other onetime Education Commissioners are Dr. Elmer Brown, Chancellor of New York University; Dr. Philander Priestly Claxton, now Superintendent of Schools in Tulsa, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commissioner Cooper | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...delegates made the trip to Seattle. Buying their tickets?for the N. E. A. does that, at excursion rates?is a problem that requires thought and appropriations each year. In view of the unwieldy size of the gathering and of a need for more intensive deliberations, Superintendent P. H. Claxton of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that next year's voting delegates be reduced to a band of 500, plus officers; representation to be in ratio with N. E. A. state memberships. The convention pondered his idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: N. E. A. | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...curtain is an original oil painting by Claxton Byron Moulton, and is in effect a huge tapestry, measuring 33 feet in width by 17 feet in height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUGE THEATRE CURTAIN PORTRAYS WASHINGTON | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

Does anyone know where this Parmalee College is that Red Grange goes to in "One Minute to Play"? I don't play football. But then Claxton hasn't been having such good teams recently. And I can walk beneath the trees with the girl friend almost as well as Grange. Of course he has played around with ice and knows how to treat that when it appears. Yet I can build a very good bonfire, and I like to talk to presidents, especially when they chew tobacco. That makes for community of interest. If anyone finds out where Parmalee...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

Died. Kate Claxton (Mrs. Charles A. Stevenson), 74, actress who played the leading roles in Frou Frou, The Two Orphans, Camille, East Lynne, suddenly at Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 12, 1924 | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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