Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among previous Godkin Lectures have been Harold E. Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota and president of the University of Pennsylvania; Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks of New York City; Professor Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago; and Australian economist D. B. Copeland...
Thirteen years had passed since the G. & C. Merriam Co. had published its fifth-edition Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. But Americans had not stopped talking. They had talked so much and so freely that they had kept twelve editors busy listening to all the new noises they made. Last week, with the publication of a brand-new edition ($6 and up), a lot of U.S. talk became official...
...Merriam-Webster editors started collecting words in common use right after their last edition came out. Whenever they spotted or heard a new one, they immediately filled out a "citation slip" on it. Words that didn't get enough slips (e.g., car park) were put back in the file again, perhaps for next time...
...others are president Frederick F. Sills of Bowdoin College; president Mildred McAfee Herton of Wollesley College; Dean Merriam Thronton of Spring field College; Mrs. Carl Meinkae, dean of Colby Junior College; and the Very Reverend John Wright, auxiliary bishop of Boston...
This year Dartmouth no longer boasts its ace forward, Bobby Merriam, and has an unimpressive record. It has improved, however, since its opening game loss to Connecticut by winning the last two games...