Word: photogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cuff, scoff and fluff will keep the "ff.") Also doomed to Trib extinction: the letters "ph" within a word, which will be replaced by "f," e.g., anglofobe, sofistry, sofomore, sofisticate, biografy. Magnanimously, the Trib granted "ph" the right to continue to exist at the start of words, e.g., philosofy, photog-rafer. Explained Amputator Astley-Cock: "It is a wise policy to recognize the universally valid principle of festina lente (hasten slowly). To abolish 'ph' at the beginning of words would mean to be out of line with the dictionary . . . Where, for instance, would a foreigner or student find...
Just before we get to Dartmouth, the photog suggests we add more realism, so we go to a hamburger stand, and order three hamburgers, with thick slices of onion. The waitress does not like us. To make it seem that we are New York slickers, we chew gum when we pull into Hanover, and also to seem like polite Joes who don't like to have people breathing our enjoy breath...
...everything turns out okay. The Editor Tom Gerber is very impressed with a New York-writer-photog team. He asks how the trip from New York was and we say tough. He laughs, and kind of asks if there is anything...
...American Cigar Institute each year offers a substantial prize to the photographer taking the best picture of a prominent individual with a cigar in his mouth. Nobody ever used President Conant as a target before, but the photog who did found the man who has won several "well-dressed man" bids quite amenable...