Word: melvile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even smaller size and everyone had made a them cheap most folder that convenient kept and them flat durable. . If and the Treasury can't be induced to reduce the size of all bills, it might at least give us $1 and 50c bills of postal sizes. MELVIL DEWEY...
...agreed as to the present need of simpler spelling. Many of the recognized leaders in education declare it the most important problem before teachers. I will gladly send free to any reader of TIME a brief statement of Reasons and Rules which wil be convincing to the fair minded. MELVIL DEWEY...
Though phonetics is the basis of simplified spelling, the Board has gone by no means as far as one of its oldest members, Melvil Dewey of Lake Placid, N. Y., believes the movement could be carried. Mr. Dewey employs phonetics with painstaking, sometimes cryptic thoroughness. At the Lake Placid Club, of which he is President, guests are familiar with such items as the following on his bill of fare: "krem of whet," "kofe," "fryd egz," "frut," "kak," "yc krem." In a letter apropos of articles on simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl...
Married. Dr. Melvil Dewey, founder-President of the Lake Placid Club, and Mrs. Emily McKay Beal, manager-Vice President of the same club; at Lake Placid...