Word: jotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked like the same old story. The second set was a backbreaker, 15-13, and Savitt won it after trailing 1-5. After that it was easy (6-3, 6-2). With the added momentum that victory gave to his confidence, and showing never a jot of the center-court jitters that have wrecked many another player at Wimbledon, he breezed past McGregor again in the final...
...first, Ivor Brown, associate editor of the London Observer, thought of his hobby as nothing more than "easy, pleasant work that I could do in bed." From his midnight reading, he would jot down old and rare words whose color and flavor deserved rescue from oblivion. Later, he took to publishing his jottings, brought out six volumes in nine years. This week, with the U.S. publication of his latest two books, No Idle Words and Having the Last Word, in one volume (E. P. Dutton; $3), U.S. readers could go hunting for rescued relics to enrich their own speech. Samples...
Lithuanian-born, American-educated Dr. Kahn has the type of mind which seems to work even when he is asleep. Often he will wake in the middle of the night, switch on a light and jot down a clue that has just occurred to him. The most promising clue that has occurred to Dr. Kahn's wakeful brain during 25 years of serum tests is that any human blood, healthy or diseased, will produce its own distinctive pattern of reactions when mixed with particular concentrations of beefheart extract. (Syphilitic serum happens to produce a strong reaction with a concentration...
Wilder's speech was not primarily a description of Poe's sufferings, for "they do not make his writings one jot better. . . . Intellects are not made by suffering," Rather, he described the writer "in and for himself," by looking at various examples of his work "as facets of his emanation...
...wasn't, at least not for E. C. Bentley. Elephant's Work is written as smoothly as whipped cream, and it is not a jot more thrilling that a session with a charlotte russe...