Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...succeed former M.I.T. President Karl Compton as chairman of the Defense Department's Research and Development Bureau, President Truman last week picked another M.I.T. man and longtime associate of ailing ex-Chairman Compton. His choice: 49-year-old William Webster, a vice president of the New England Electric System...
More an administrator than a scientist, Nominee Webster is an old hand at controlling the explosive combination of scientists in government. A graduate of the Naval Academy (1920), he took a master's degree at M.I.T., served six years in the Naval Construction Corps before he resigned to work for the New England Power Association. Later he served as chairman of the Military Liaison Committee, whose job is to keep the Pentagon within hailing distance of atomic developments, became a consultant for the Joint Research and Development Board, military ancestor...
...Webster will be responsible for testing and evaluating such new weapons and new techniques as guided missiles, rocket-firing submarines, bacteriological warfare. His most crucial responsibility: the hydrogen bomb...
...victory was most of all Shaw's. Margaret Webster's production, with Evans in the title role, is properly lively, but more lively than skillful; and at the cavernous City Center, where audibility must come before art, it is not so much spoken as shouted. The play's the thing-at any rate the second half of it. At the start of this comedy of the American
...newscast over Houston station KPRC in 1936, Commentator Frank Colby mentioned the Dionne "KWIN-tyoo-plits." Listeners barraged him with protests; they said that the correct pronunciation was kwin-TUH-plits or kwinTOO-plits. After Colby had cited Webster to prove that his pronunciation was preferred, he decided to start a column in the Houston Chronicle about words, their pronunciation and derivation. It was such a success that Colby settled down full-time to writing a daily column, "Take My Word for It," now syndicated in 600 newspapers...