Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting good teamwork and consistent play." Gravem and Heckscher, at one, lost to Rieger and Brown, 6-2, 6-4. Despite dropping the first set 6-1, Canfield and Fischer edged Krome and Moock in three sets, while Mayers and Harris had no difficulty with Paul Bierly and Sam Finerman, winning...
...affairs expert, will play the key part. A longtime reciprocal trader, still holding firm against protectionist pressures from Georgia's textile and plywood industries, he may make the difference between an adequate bill and one riddled with amendments granting tariff sops to individual industries. ¶ When House Speaker Sam Rayburn pushed a patently political $20-a-head income-tax cut through the House, it faced a humiliating defeat in the Senate. Lyndon Johnson came up with a formula for watering down Rayburn's bill that was so appealing that it lost (by six votes) only because Walter George...
Hampden's picture to the wall. The political history of Western civilization used to be considered as largely a matter of resistance to taxes. But now old Wat Tyler and Sam Adams go back to their cribs while the mature American faces taxes with a confident smile...
...good a dictionary was it? This week, on the sooth anniversary of its publication, Johnsonians could find the answers in two new studies: Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, by James H. Sledd and Gwin J. Kolb of the University of Chicago (University of Chicago Press; $5), and Young Sam Johnson, by James L. Clifford, professor of English at Columbia University (McGraw-Hill...
Barbarous Language. Sam Johnson was not the only man to realize the need for such a book. While learned academies in France and Italy had both compiled dictionaries for their own countries, Britons, said Dryden in 1693, "have yet no English prosodia, not so much as a tolerable dictionary, or a grammar; so that our language is in a manner barbarous." The best reference book around was Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological English Dictionary, but the Bailey brand of definition, e.g., a mouse: "an animal well known," was hardly adequate. Finally, a group of booksellers got in touch with...