Word: selchow
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...invented the name "Scrabble" (dictionary meaning: "to scrape, paw or scratch with the hands or feet"). He and his wife started making the games themselves in a small workshop at Newtown, Conn. Six months ago, unable to keep up with the burgeoning demand, they licensed a game-manufacturing company, Selchow & Righter, to bring out Scrabble sets on a mass-production basis...