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Cherubino's role-a woman must impersonate a boy-is extraordinarily tricky. Peggy Everitt's slight but colorful voice was perfect for the part, and her saucy portrayal of the page clicked...

Author: By Stephen Hart, | Title: The Marriage of Figaro | 4/29/1967 | See Source »

Mercurial Change. To build so perfect a gyroscope, Stanford Physicists William Fairbank and Francis Everitt will use a sphere of quartz coated with niobium, a metal that becomes a superconductor and shows no resistance to electric current when cooled to extremely low temperatures. The sphere will be placed inside an evacuated quartz shell, also coated with niobium, and suspended in an electrostatic field. Suspending it in this manner will allow it to spin in a near-perfect vacuum without touching anything; it will be free from all friction. The gyroscope container will be kept in a bath of liquid helium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relativity: Proving Einstein Right | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...were the fireworks over. The next evening, after considerable discussion, Benjamin entered the two-mile against Graham Everitt, Scotland's 4:03 miler. Excitement began to grow as Benjamin led the field through the first mile in 4:29. As Everett fell behind, Benjamin kept up his withering pace. With a last 440 of 63.0, he hit the tape in a sensational 8:55.2, a new Harvard record and the best performance this season by an American runner...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Touring Harvard-Yale Track Team Takes Oxford-Cambridge Classic | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

...proportion of Missouri Negroes live, most schools have a majority of white pupils. But not all. One that does not is the Eugene Field School, which, up until this fall, had only Negro students. Now, along with 860 colored children it has 40 white children. Its principal, Mr. Fay Everitt, and all its teachers are still Negroes...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: Desegregation: A Case Study | 10/19/1955 | See Source »

...children new to the Field neighborhood could not go to Clark due to the new districting laws, but the 30 former Clark pupils could easily return to their old school. To date, none of them have. No conflicts between colored and white children have occurred. Moreover, the principal, Mr. Everitt, reports that the majority of colored children does not browbeat the few white children. Their relationships are straight-forward and easy-going. White parents have joined the Parent-Teachers Association. And, according to Mr. Everitt, more and more white children will attend Field each year. In the case...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: Desegregation: A Case Study | 10/19/1955 | See Source »

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