Word: tolson
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...movie chronicles the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a 1930s-era professor at Wiley College, located in Marshall Texas. In 1935, Thompson led a recently-formed debate team made up of Wiley students to a win over Harvard in the national championship...
...year, Washington’s daughter, Katia, was considering coming to Harvard before deciding to attend Yale, Counter said. According to the Internet Movie Database, Washington is currently working on a film titled “The Great Debaters,” based on the story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College in Texas during the 1930s who trained a team of students that would defeat Harvard in the national debate championship. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...followed by three weeks back at Kintore with the same nurse. It so impressed health minister Toyne that his government provided two machines and nurses, plus pilot funding for 12 months, with plans to use the model elsewhere in the state. One of the first patients through was Turkey Tolson's widow, Mary, who was well enough to join in women's business at Kintore this month, dancing at ceremony and collecting bush tomatoes. Next, Toyne wants to target the younger generation of Pintupi people with preventive measures, looking at better immunization, hygiene and diet. In the meantime, says...
...community together," says Paul Sweeney, manager of Papunya Tula Artists. Many of the victims have been the art movement's luminaries. In 1998, just as the movement was about to reach its apotheosis with a 2000 retrospective at Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales, Mick Namarari, Turkey Tolson and Yala Yala Gibbs were all on dialysis in Alice Springs, far from their families (all have since passed away). Both the homeland movement and the industry that spawned it were faced with extinction...