Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled school week came to a close, 15 of the Clay school's 18 teachers returned to work, and the Webster County board of education attempted to give legal sanction to its stand by formally voting not to accept Negro children from the Providence Rosenwald School. The next move was up to Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler. If he orders the guard removed, Mrs. Gordon, whose case is buttressed by neither a county board order nor a court order, will probably have to send her children to the Rosenwald School for another year while Clay belatedly works...
RALPH E. NYE Webster Groves...
...test his delivery, buffed and polished each polysyllabic pearl of syntax and rhetoric before his pretty blonde wife. This week he was ready with a keynote speech that was charged with a rare potential of metaphor, simile and alliteration, borrowed liberally from orators ranging from Cicero to Daniel Webster to Billy Graham...
Director Nicholas Webster made excellent use of his cameras and of the simple but solid sets. The costumes, inspired by archaic statues and vase paintings, were well designed and made of top-grade material. And finally, a word must be said for the stunning quality of the film's Anscocolor processing...
Semanticists were worried about the social congregations on dormitory steps because, as one of them put it, "the function of entries is to allow people to go in and out--see Webster's International Dictionary, 1946 edition, page...