Word: coined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted to the word "neotrist,"† which they hired Lexicographer Charles Earle Funk to coin for them to describe a typical Journal reader. Mr. Annenberg's books haven't got that...
...weeks ahead, comes the annual scramble to choose a field of concentration for the ensuing three years of college. Each year at this time, the Yearlings come face to face with one of the most crucial decisions of their educational career. Selection of a field is no light, coin-tossing proposition, for a faulty or hasty choice in this matter often has far reaching consequences in upperclass studies. It is therefore essential to a Freshman's future welfare that he thoroughly investigate those fields which interest him, and, by logical elimination, select the one most fitted to his abilities...
...ballad of Dartmouth reported the Crimson lads swimming in Hanover during the Carnival, were all offering even money. But we've not seen any of that money come out of Boston. And right here we'd like to put in our bid for some of that loose-flying Crimson coin...
...great pyx*-, an ancient chest three feet square, used according to records for 98 years, and no one knows how much longer. Ceremonially its great padlocks were removed, its lid thrown back, its twelve inner compartments, one for each month, revealed. In each compartment were labeled bags of coin, the heaviest freight which the old pyx had ever borne: 92,492 pieces of small change, samples of the 184,843,732 coins† minted at Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver...
...tyros of the Assay Commission divided into three sub-committees to undertake their tasks. Task No. 1 was to count the contents of sample bags and de termine that the Mints had set aside as required for testing one silver coin out of every 2,000 minted.** Task No. 2, under the direction of Assayer Buford, was to assay sample coins taken at random from all denominations and all Mints to determine that they were individually and as a group 900 fine or within a fraction there of. Task No. 3, under the direction of Dr. Holbrook, was to weigh...