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Word: serriform (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1958-1958
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...ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel, can translate into everyday English. In the second day and the 19th round of the spelldown, 13-year-old Betty Morgan, whose horn-blowing, flag-waving claque from Washington's St. Thomas Apostle School had cheered her through spinosity, serriform and caliginous, choked up on chiaus. Only four spellers were left: Stanley A. Schmidt, 14, entrant of the Cincinnati Post and station WCPO (each contestant was escorted by a markedly unobjective newsman from his home-town paper); Terry Madeira, 13, Harrisburg Patriot and News; Tina Strauss, 13, Pittsburgh Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The $1,000 Word | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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