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...done to the English language since Jamestown was settled in 1607. He brought with "him thousands of cards representing American entries in the OED. These became the basis of the DAE. Sir William's co-editor since 1936 has been Chicago's lanky Chaucerian Professor James Root Hulbert. Many U.S. experts lent their advice, and volunteers supplied thousands of samples of early U.S. usages...
When the first of the DAE's sections came off the press in 1936, Sir William went home to Oxfordshire with his strong-minded wife. For seven years he and Co-Editor Hulbert collaborated and quibbled from a distance. Throughout the long printing process, two sets of every proof went to Sir William. He corrected and returned both. Sometimes he did his final editing on proofs, a practice which unnerves typesetters. The mangling got so bad that the Press almost lost its staff, had to serve an ultimatum on the editors...
...keep himself sane during his long devotion to thousands of little cards, Co-Editor Hulbert refreshed himself with detective stories. But what Sir William chiefly likes to do when not defining a word is to change the subject by defining another one. Last week he was in a hillside cottage above the pretty village of Watlington, plugging away on material for his Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, which has been in progress for twelve years. But as an old word wrestler he well knows that no lexicon is ever complete or wholly correct, and is partly out-of-date...
Died. Captain Stephen Hulbert Avenel Haggard, 31, writer-actor son of Sir Godfrey Digby Napier Haggard, British Consul General in New York; grandnephew of Author H. Rider Haggard; in an undisclosed battle area. He appeared with Ethel Barrymore in 1938's Whiteoaks, same year attracted attention with his first novel...
Most famed of all amateur astronomers is Robert Raynolds McMath, 51, who spends as little time as possible as chairman of Detroit's Motors Metal Manufacturing Co., as much as possible in the elaborate McMath-Hulbert Observatory near Pontiac. Fifteen years ago, Engineer McMath built a small 4-inch telescope for his father, became so fascinated at his first view of Jupiter's satellites and the moon's mountains that he has been designing astronomical instruments ever since. He has made the world's best motion pictures of solar phenomena, and his films are now used...