Word: webster
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Sister Jacqueline Grennan, 40, president of Missouri's Webster College, has a nationwide reputation as a nunly innovator. She is the only woman member of the President's educational advisory council, and under her direction Webster has done pioneering research in the development of school curricula. Last week Sister Jacqueline joined the growing number of U.S. nuns (TIME, Jan. 13) who have abandoned the convent. With the approval of St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter, she is leaving the Sisters of Loretto after 18 years. At their request, however, she will remain president of Webster-which, if Rome...
...fact, regard themselves as dedicated alumnae of their orders. A case in point is Mary Louise Prendergast, who left the Sisters of Loretto last year after 20 years as a nun. Although an unmarried laywoman now, she remains chairman of the science department at the Loretto Sisters' Webster College...
...LINEBACKERS: George Webster, 21, Michigan State, 6 ft. 4 in., 212 Ibs., Bob Matheson, 22, Duke, 6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs., and Jim Lynch, 21, Notre Dame, 6 ft. 1 in., 225 Ibs. Michigan State's "monster man" (meaning roving linebacker), Webster, in one scout's opinion, is "the best all-around college athlete in the country. In a pinch, he can even play defensive safety or cornerback." Matheson is also adaptable ("He has the ability to play tight end on offense"), and Lynch is "a real leader who is always conscious of the clock and tries...
...Mount Carroll, Ill., has a 300-seat arena-type theater. The University of Michigan is building a $3,000,000 playhouse with 1,426 seats to serve the university and the off-campus Ann Arbor theater crowd. With $1,500,000 donated by Conrad Hilton, St. Louis' Webster College has put up its new Loretto-Hilton Center...
...explanation is relatively simple. For one thing, Random House's dictionary is a bargain: $25 per copy, as against $47.50 for the nearest competitors (Funk & Wagnall's, Webster's Third International). For another, the need for a new big dictionary definitely existed. Webster's was last updated five years ago; other dictionaries go as far back, unrevised though reissued, to 1913. For a third, Random House has dropped the word count of big dictionaries to 260,000 from an average of 400,000. Thus it may qualify as the first heavyweight dictionary truly designed for ordinary...