Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clement Attlee, opening an educational center as a memorial to oldtime Fabian Socialist Beatrice Webb, hoped aloud that the place would not be full of radio and gramophone music. "One of the hardest things at this time," observed Britain's much-criticized Prime Minister, now deep in hard times, "is to get some quiet to speak...
...Jackson, Tenn., old (73) Locomotive-Fireman Sim T. Webb recalled what Casey Jones really said before he took his "trip into the promised land" in the early morning of April 30, 1900. Casey, highballing south from Durant, Miss, at the throttle of the Illinois Central Railroad's locomotive No. 638, yelled across the cab at Webb: "Oh, Sim! The old girl's got her high-heeled slippers on tonight!" The occasion for this reminiscence: the unveiling of a monument on Casey's grave, for 47 years marked only by a wooden cross...
Texas Historian Walter Prescott Webb (The Great Plains) deplored the dull way his state's history was taught in the Texas public schools; pupils learned the lessons dutifully and soon forgot them. Professor Webb, who teaches at the University of Texas, was convinced that children can not only learn to like history; they can help to write it. Seven years ago he organized a Junior State Historical Association, to persuade high-school kids to discover history for themselves and to write up what they found just as professional historians...
...with lore under such titles as "Uncle George Edgin's Recollections of Frontier Texas," "The First White Child Born in Texas," "Snakes and Whiskey" (the story of frontier medicine). Last week, its 43rd issue, written by and for the children, was in the works at Austin. Says Professor Webb proudly: "By gosh, we've done...
JOSEPH C. WEBB JR. Washington...