Word: ordway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Ordway Rugg is a mild-mannered, talkative little man, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who writes history and social-science textbooks. Lively and readable, they are the most popular books of their kind, have sold some 2,000,000 copies, are used in 4,000 U. S. schools. But recently the heat has been turned...
...night last week the Board of Higher Education, which last month had voted unanimously for Russell's appointment, met again behind closed doors to reconsider. Close upon midnight, out marched Ordway Tead, announced that Board had resolutely voted two to one stand by its guns...