Word: sesquipedalian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional matter of course; he expressed greater satisfaction in the report's style and readability. Says Burns: "I've always considered writing important. I went through all the stages that economists go through, from jargon to lucidity, and on the way I passed through the sesquipedalian* stage...
...weakness for using words like "sesquipedalian...
...critic's "livid" might have been a slip 'twixt the pen and the press; nevertheless, his little bundle of skillfully modulated sesquipedalian (or is it sesqui-pedantic?) phrases is a stodgy example of journalism uninhibited by idiomatic terminology. Sydney H. Sohanberg '55 Robert A. Spangler...