Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married twice legally, five times according to Indian custom, Grey Owl travels with a French Canadian wife and a protector in the person of President Hugh Eayrs of Toronto's Macmillan Co., his publishers.* Mr. Eayrs's duty it is to keep the Grey Owl away from firewater and long-distance telephones, his chief extravagances, to allow him pocket money. From the Saskatchewan Government Grey Owl receives $75 a month as a warden, from lectures he receives up to $500 apiece, and he has a fortune estimated at $50,000. He has also had his portrait done...
...getting away with esthetic murder long enough." But the strongest impulse to express herself otherwise than in painting and pantomime came after she saw the outbreak of the Spanish revolution last year. Back in the U. S. she found herself writing magazine articles, speaking on the radio "as a person about persons," finally eager to speak, as a person, about herself...
...FIRST PERSON PLURAL-Stackpole...
Inexact vocabularians have reckoned the average intelligent adult's vocabulary at about 15,000 words. Recently, however, Northwestern University's Psychology Professor Robert Holmes Seashore* devised a scientific test to determine the total number of English words a person would recognize. It is a multiple-choice examination using sample lists of "basic" and "derived" words from Funk & Wagnails' unabridged dictionary, which lists 450,000 words in all. Dr. Seashore's test includes common words as well as puzzlers like antisialogogue (an agent preventing the flow of saliva). Last week he reported the surprising discovery that...
North and west of Pocatello, Idaho, U. S. highway 30 N enters the Snake River Valley, a wild region of fantastic rock formations, ghost towns, ice caverns, dinosaur fields, waterfalls, hot springs, reclamation projects, historic legends, lava beds. In some places, because of the underground rivers, "a person can put his ear to the ground and hear deep and troubled rumblings as if a mighty ocean rolled far under." Thirty-eight miles from Pocatello a three-mile side road leads to Emigrant Rock, where travelers wrote their names in axle grease as early as 1849. Forty-four miles on, another...