Word: compendium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinct from English English is to cite the vast number of words which have meanings and philological derivations peculiar to the U. S. Last week the University of Chicago announced that Professor Sir William Craigie, since 1901 joint-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, had half-finished a compendium of such words, his Chicago American Dictionary, "the first historical dictionary of the American tongue." The task has already occupied him for four years. Professor Craigie, a thorough believer in the autonomy of Americanisms,* points out that "American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers...
...persons who can or who merely believe they can write 'articles, there is sure to be information of value. The authors do not claim to make of every reader a successful contributor to the Sat Eve Post on the Atlantic, but they do offer a good orderly compendium of facts that will save many "trials and enters" for the potential contribution to contemporary non flection...
Every self-disrespecting U. S. city has a tattle magazine. Usually it is ambiguously guised as a compendium of smartset goings-on. In Philadelphia it is the Town Crier; in Boston the Bostonian. Indiscreet St. Louis socialites dread the Censor; incautious Kansas citizens the Independent. But the happy hunting grounds of the gossip-magazine publisher are Manhattan and Washington. With the announcement: last week that the Club Fellow & Washington Mirror had been bought by the owners of the Taller & American Sketch, it became apparent that Windsor Publishing Corp. had its field almost completely in control. Only the 52-year...
...problem of the individual fitting himself to the job, has already been the basis of much discussion at Harvard, as the newly created position of Consultant on Careers testifies. Mr. Martin's thought-provoking comment is an excellent compendium on the whole question...