Word: atcheson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates proceeded to trade each other all sorts of useless knowledge. From Harold W. Bentley, managing editor of American Speech, they got a report on names of U. S. towns and cities. Samples: Social Circle, Wide Mouth, Jingo, Sleepy Eye, Matrimony, Hot Coffee. University of Virginia's Professor Atcheson L. Hench delivered a scholarly discourse on the history of the term "stark-naked" (from start-naked, literally: buttocks-naked). Most superbly useless piece of information given to the convention was a paper on The Pronunciation of German Surnames in Potosi, Wisconsin...
...Platak, agile Chicago post-office clerk: the handball championship of the U. S., for the third year in a row; 21-13, 21-6 in the final against Past Champion Sam Atcheson of Memphis, Tenn.; in Chicago...
Next day Hobelmann's adversary was a player with a game more like his own-curly-haired Samuel Atcheson, paper salesman of Memphis, Tenn. Atcheson had a run of 14 points at the start of the match before Hobelmann got one; Hobelmann got 11 while his adversary ran out the game. The next game-Hobelmann depending largely on his reach, Atcheson playing low shots into the corners-was close till the points were at 6-all. Then Atcheson got another run, 15 points this time, to end the match and tournament without losing a game-a feat which...