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...Grandgent '19, member of the committee for the compilation of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, will aid in the active work to be commenced this summer with Yale as headquarters...
...This atlas was first suggested by Professor E. S. Sturtevant of Yale. At the invitation of the American Council of Learned Societies a group of scholars met at Yale two years ago to consider the plan. Within the next two years the work for Southern New England is expected to be completed. A questionnaire has been prepared through which field workers will collect characteristic facts of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, to establish dialectic differences. In addition speech records will be taken...
...week. "I am here to speak or lecture at a place called Buffalo, prominent for its bootleggers. Then I will speak at Toledo, a place full of crooks chased out of Chicago. Third, I will lecture at Urbana, Ill., a place I couldn't find on my $12 atlas...
...Atlas Powder...
Clamp-jawed George Sparks Milnor, head of U. S. Grain Stabilization Corp., sat at his desk in Chicago last week showing obvious signs of fatigue. His face was taut and tired, but his heavy-lidded eyes sparkled with satisfaction. For more than a fortnight his shoulders alone, Atlas-like, had steadfastly supported the price of wheat...