Word: deader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...founded, Harper was a prodigy. Born in an Ohio log cabin, he read the Bible at three, graduated from Muskingum College at 13, taught Hebrew at Muskingum at 16, got a Ph.D. at Yale at 18, was a full professor at 20. Harper made the study of Hebrew, theretofore deader than Sanskrit, a national fad. He started Hebrew summer classes, institutes, correspondence courses, soon had so much mail that the local postmaster's salary had to be raised. Eventually Yale nabbed him; it took Yale's largest lecture hall to hold his students; he had more mail than...