Word: microprint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...O.E.D. is a magnificent but inconvenient enthusiasm; the full 13-volume set costs $395 and weighs too much (80 Ibs.) to take on trips. A two-volume microprint edition has been available since 1971, but requires a magnifying glass to read. The eyestrain is well earned. The enterprise of the full dictionary engaged the labor of hundreds-editors, subeditors, voluntary readers-over more than half a century. The greatest of the dictionary's editors, James A.H. Murray, died in 1915, while finishing up the letter T, 13 years before the last of the Zs (zymurgy and zynder) went into...
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