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Texas to the Congo. It was as simple as the first: to publish a speller that would include pronunciation, meaning and usage, with exercises to match. The new speller and workbook swept the nation. Over the years, every schoolchild in Texas and Alabama, and half of those in ten other states were learning their spelling and vocabulary simultaneously. The Webster books found their way into such big cities as New York, to the Philippines and Alaska, and via missionaries to China, India, and the Belgian Congo...
...Huskies scored again in the third period on a header by John Speller...
...Rhyme or Reason. Authors and publishers will be hard put to it to find from this volume why these best-sellers were bestsellers. The Bible remains the champion best-seller of all times, but its closest U.S. competitor is Noah Webster's Blue-Back Speller, a textbook first published in 1790 which has sold more than 100 million copies...
...Henry Ashurst wrote in his speller, in a childish but firm hand: Henry Fountain Ashurst, U. S. Senator from Arizona. Thus he announced the great ambition of his life...
Clutching a bronze Courier-Journal plaque and a check for $500, blushing Speller Beckley confessed: "The hardest word for me was really baste...