Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1952 Davis has been one of a group of leaders who have provided counsel and guidance for the Program. The chairman of the advisory committee is Dr. Charles R. Sayre, President of the Delta and Pine Land Company, Scott, Mississippi...
...While awaiting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the question of segregation in the public schools, Mississippi came to a decision of its own: the state senate voted down an amendment to the Mississippi constitution that would have allowed the legislature to keep Jim Crow by putting the public schools into private hands...
...call letters for Chicago's Channel 11 will have to start with W, since the Federal Communications Commission has ruled that, in general, all station call letters east of the Mississippi begin with that letter and all those west of the Mississippi begin with K. Originally, only three call letters were required, but the mushrooming growth of radio threatened to exhaust the possible combinations and made it necessary to add a fourth letter...
Also, Bender pointed out, under a new admission policy of visiting more schools, especially in the West, more applicants were to be expected. Presently, 95 percent of the students from west of the Mississippi receive scholarship...
...Owen) fires his questions from a theater stage while his four assistants track down contestants in the audience ("I have a lady in the balcony, Doctor!"). The quiz payoff is made in silver dollars, and the questions are as hard as ever ("Name the states that border on the Mississippi River"). With its dramatic values considerably heightened by television, Dr. I.Q. is not likely to remain unsponsored for long...