Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inhabitants did less damage to the building than did the chemistry teacher who preceded them. In the 1830's Dr. John Webster, hiding behind a door while he stretched a pole with a candle at its end toward a kettle, would ignite "a volcano in an iron pot." In 1837 the pot exploded, smoke billowed forth, and his students threw themselves out of the windows...
...group numbers are all well done, and the addition of singing in the kickline number is an improvement over past years. An unusual variation is the modern dance, a clever number with only a few rough spots, and a credit to the choreographer, Robert Norris. Webster Lithgow's sets make the most of Sanders' legendary inconviences...
JUSTICE," said Daniel Webster, "is the great interest of man on earth." But the focus of interest shifts. In Webster's day it centered on the courts; trials were closely watched, judges were appraised, lawyers had their bands of knowing followers. The present interest in justice is spotty. It concentrates on the detection of criminals, on new statutes, and on the public-welfare services encompassed by the phrase "social justice." The courts are so neglected by the educators, the press and the public that reporters covering a rare sensation, such as the Sheppard trial, find that they have...
Q.E.D. In Denver, charged with driving an automobile with one arm around a woman, Murel Webster was acquitted after arguing that the woman was his wife and that it was therefore "not logical" that he should drive through town with his arm around...
When they are put under military command, as in the many laboratories of the armed services, they feel that they are misunderstood and their capabilities wasted. Said William Webster, executive vice president of the New England Electric System, twelve years a naval officer: "A military organization is a very trying climate for the best work of scientists...