Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chemical engineers are the best paid in the profession, and civil engineers the worst, William F. Ryan '11, Engineering Manager of the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, said last night...
...certain novelty of atmosphere and attack: it tells of a gifted young painter (Leueen MacGrath) who has been condemned to hang for poisoning her brother, and who is forced by floods-while being taken to prison-to spend some time at a convent. A nursing sister (Margaret Webster) has a fierce conviction that the girl is innocent, and works at the case till she finds the right solution...
Something novel in Shakespearean recordings has been introduced in the Margaret Webster "Romeo and Juliet," put out by the Atlantic Recording Corporation. For the first time a conscious effort has been made to recreate, as much as possible, the atmosphere of an actual theatrical production of the play. To do this, Miss Webster uses a battery of four super-sensitive microphones, set up in footlight fashion before the actors. The result of this new technique is greater freedom of movement, and Miss Webster's goal of achieving the feeling of a stage performance is partially accomplished...
...Barnhart, this "historical" method in an ordinary desk dictionary seems absurd. A bank, says he, is not first of all "the table or counter of a moneychanger" as Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary lists it. In Barnhart's book, it is "an institution for keeping, lending, exchanging, and issuing money...
...famed as mayor, congressman, governor and convicted con-man.* "He had the harsh Boston voice," recalls Delbert Staley, "and the vocabulary of a fishmonger. But I straightened out his grammar, gave him a vocabulary, and trained his voice." Curley, says Staley proudly, is "the greatest American orator since Daniel Webster...