Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most of their source material the editors relied on second-rate writers, extinct magazines like the Southern Literary Messenger, the Lowell Magazine, the early Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Scribner's, The Congressional Record. Writers like Hawthorne. Emerson, and Thoreau, Sir William observes, were "too English" to contribute much to his compendium...
...Although Sir William spent the last eleven years at the University of Chicago on professorship to work on the Dictionary, returning to England only for the summers, most of the spadework was done by his colleague. Chicago Professor James Root Hulburt and small, Scottish George Watson, longtime subordinate on the Oxford Dictionary who followed Craigie to Chicago in 1926. Last week with the Dictionary well under way, Sir William had returned to his home at Watlington, England, where he will probably stay to work on a new Dictionary of Scottish Tongues...
...Chicago Tribune headlined Sir William's appointment: MIDWAY SIGNS LIMEY PROF TO DOPE YANK TALK...
...Conference in Berlin six years ago; Japan's beaming Professor Masawo Kamo, who has a flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College of Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand...
...discussions. Floyd Carlisle of Niagara Hudson Power subsequently took occasion to declare that in spite of its municipal plant, Los Angeles had neither as high electric consumption nor as low rates as the average U. S. city. Hottest reply came from Britain's John C. Dalton. associate of Sir Archibald Page, who referred to Engineer Davidson's speech as "tirade"' and indignantly declared "Let us at all costs keep the politicians away from this business of ours...