Word: danae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August speaking on the 1 and 2 followed by The Reverend Leonard G. Clough on August 5, 6, 7, and Professor Robert G. McCloskey on August 8 and 9. On August 12, 13, and 14 The Reverend Samuel H. Miller will speak; on August 15 and 16 Professor Dana M. Cotton; and on August 19, 20, and 21 Mr. Walter F. Smith...
...Extra "O." The girls ticked off aquarellist, staphylococcic, gracilescent, adscititious, eupraxia, argillaceous, autochthan and umbelliferous. Then, when the pronouncer had only six of his 630 words left, Sandra spelled Xylophagus with a g-o-u-s, and Dana got it right. It seemed as if Sandra had wound up exactly as she had a year ago-until the judges found that her xylophagous was acceptable...
When she learned that she still had a chance, Sandra burst into tears. Handlers bustled her out into the hall and finally, red-eyed and minus her glasses, she was able to resume. Dana got grisaille, Sandra videlicet. Sandra also got logomachy, while Dana got triskelion and cuproiodar-gyrite. With that, all 630 words were gone, but someone happened to have a supplementary list...
...Extra "P." Sandra got trirhomboidal, and when Dana spelled lapicide with an "s," her first chance of victory. But Sandra was even further off with lappiside. Dana spelled nasillate nasalate, but Sandra muffed again with nasilate. The same thing happened when Dana turned scelotyrbe into scelloturby, and Sandra made it skelloturby. The girls recovered on cerumen, chaffinch and ichneumon. Then the pronouncer said: "Schappe...
...Said Dana...