Word: philologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work on this absorbing, 1,174-page thesaurus since 1931. He got special checking help from such experts as Bing Crosby (on music), Variety's Jack Edward (entertainment slang), John A. Leslie of Ohio State Prison on the language of tramps and the underworld. His collaborator, Nebraskan Philologist Melvin Van den Bark, worked out the main outlines of classification and groupings of words. In general these follow Roget but they culminate in 430 highly readable pages on "Special Slang" of various trades, sports and regions. That section alone will probably help more third-rate novelists look like second-raters...
...scholars to report their explorations (see pp. 68 & 73) on the frontiers of science and philosophy -frontiers from Jerusalem to Buenos Aires. Richard Henry Tawney, professor of economic history at the University of London, flew to the meeting by Clipper and plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics in the modern world drew the biggest crowd. In the murk of Gothic Mandel Hall, 2,000 heard totalitarianism doomed by Professors...