Word: spoonerism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Score--Harvard 41, Middlebury $1. Goals from floor--Rex 6, Wenner 4, O'Connell 3, Mahady 2, Farrell, Johnson 3, Humeston 4, Humeston 4, Sorenson 3, Goals on fouls--Upton 3, O'Connell 2, Mahady 2,--Farrell, Wenner, Soreson 4, Casey, Johnson, Spooner, Timekeeper--McGuire: Referee-Souders, ware-Two 20-minute periods...
HARVARD MIDDLEBURYWenner, l.f. r.f., JohnsonD'Connell, r.f. l.f., Bulliken, Maynard, SorensonUpton, Mahady, c. c., Humeston, Maynard, Sorenson Rex, l.g. r.g., Spooner...
HARVARD MIDDLEBURY Wenner, l.f. r.f., Johnson O'Connell, r.f. l.f., Screnson Upton, c. c., Brockelman Rex, l.g. r.g., Spooner Farrell, r.g. l.g., Casey...
...William Archibald Spooner, onetime warden of New College, Oxford, celebrated last fortnight his golden wedding anniversary. He has long been aware that he is the cause of the appearance of the word "spoonerism" in the Oxford English Dictionary. A spoonerism is the transposition of two sounds, or of the first letters of two words, in a simple sentence. In 1879, Dr. Spooner announced a hymn as "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take." Since then, he has been labeled the author of countless spoonerisms. But, on his golden wedding celebration, he stoutly maintained that "Kinquering Congs" was his one and only...
...airports have been made remarkably efficient, but what about the flyer who, straying at night from his course, passes near a field at which he is not expected, of which he is unaware? That contingency, too, is now taken care of by a device invented by Research Engineer T. Spooner of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. and demonstrated last week at Bettis Field,*McKeesport, Pa. This device, essentially, is a mechanical ear which may be set to listen, while airport attendants sleep, for any ships that pass in the night. It is a microphone, with a large "loud-hearer" attached...