Word: fowlerize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closest events of the evening were the 200-yard back and breast strokes. Paul Santmire and Bill Hoadley easily won their races, but Ned Benton had to come from behind in the last lap to catch Tech ace Bob Jantzen in the backstroke; and breaststroke John Fowler managed to nip M.I.T.'s Bill Buck at the finish...
...Professor Harold Lasswell, for instance, a social scientist on the Law faculty, with Professor Myers McDougal, gives a course in "World Community and Law," which presents international law "in the perspective of the world-power process." Philosopher-lawyer Filmer Northrop teaches "Philosophy of Natural Science and Natural Law." Professor Fowler Harper, too, in his course on "Family Law," considers not only such things as divorce law, but also the psychological and personality conflicts that lead to divorce. As he says, "We want to go behind the law to find what makes people commit adultery...
...spite of the fame of Henry W. Fowler's Modern English Usage, Britons never coined the verb "to fowlerize." But in official circles, at least, they are beginning to use "to gowerize." Its source is leathery Sir Ernest Cowers, 74, a retired civil servant who has been waging a relentless war against the turgid prose called officialese. Last week, from Sir Ernest's new book, The Complete Plain Words (Her Majesty's Stationery Office), thousands of readers both in and out of the service were learning what gowerizing is all about-"to say what you mean...
...Mordecai Fowler Ham, a fiery-eyed, long-fingered Kentucky revivalist, began to blaze away at Charlotte from a tabernacle on the edge of town. Billy Frank Graham somehow sensed that he was a sitting duck for Mordecai Ham, and carefully stayed away. Finally, at his mother's urging, Billy went to the tabernacle with his good friend. Grady Wilson. For a week the two boys quailed under the gimlet gaze of Mordecai. who seemed to be searching out their most secret sins. Then they joined the choir so they could stand behind him, but there was no hiding place...
Spreading the Word. In Nashville, six years ago, Wally Fowler staged the first all-night sing, switching from profitable ($75,000 a year) hillbilly music to "dedicate my singing to the Lord." Today, there are a dozen full-time gospel groups roving the countryside, singing about 250 engagements a year. Top quartets get about $400 an appearance, for an annual gross of about $20,000 a man. Although some of the quartets record for RCA and other big companies, their best sales are on small Southern labels, and Southern sheet-music sales are often in the millions...