Word: essayistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted that most citizens seemed satisfied to stay there in spite of one who declaimed: "If they gave me hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in hell." Oklahoma was one long dust storm. He felt he could not improve on the seventh-grade essayist who wrote: "Dust, that terrible word dust, when we hear the word our mind turns to thinking of coughing, choking particles that come from somewhere to make our days unpleasant. . . . One thing we can be proud of United States dust storms are the latest thing...
...first half year. His courses will be on "The Modern English Novel" and "The Elizabethan Dramatists." An Englishman, Dr. Farmer graduated from the University of Manchester, and subsequently moved to France. His publications have concerned English Literature in the late 19th Century, particularly the works of Walter Pater, essayist and critic...
Zoological President. Few if any scientists in Britain are more concerned with Science-in-Society than Julian Sorell Huxley. This owl-eyed, quick-thinking, quick-talking biologist of 48 is the grandson of the 19th Century's brilliant Biologist-Essayist Thomas Henry Huxley, the brother of Novelist Aldous Huxley, the grandnephew of Matthew Arnold. His most recent endeavors have been a tour of industrial and academic laboratories in Britain (Science & Social Needs), an examination of Science in Russia (A Scientist Among the Soviets), two popularizations written with a collaborator (Simple Science and More Simple Science}, a detailed blow...
...airbrake, airline, automobile, autobus, autocar, autotruck. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...
...states a taster was more valued than a chief-of-staff. Tacitus, indeed, tells of empire-shaking deeds when the taster succumbed to the lure of Tammany tactics, and Montaigne accounts it the greatest of compliments that Henry IV of France dispensed with his taster when visiting at the essayist's chateau. But Montaigne was a humanist, and had not reduced his kitchen to a system of boilers, pulleys, chafing dishes and steam baths...