Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing no one argues-Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind...
From Eltville-am-Rhein the party boarded a specially chartered river steamer, which, with the black-red-gold Presidential ensign at the stem, slipped down the yellow swirling river to Coblenz. French shipping companies at Strasbourg kept all their tugs, barges, river boats in dock during the celebration. The only foreign ensign which the Hindenburgs saw was a huge U. S. flag flapping from the staff of Schloss Schönburg at Oberwesel, estate of T. J Oakley Rhinelander. Manhattan socialite, uncle of miscegenating Kip Rhinelander (TIME, Jan. 6 et ante...
...Hebert across the plate. In the seventh frame, the whole visiting lineup went to bat, six men going to the plate for their second time. After Lawrence made a home run with Dougherty and Shevlin on base, MacHale was sent in to relieve Devens but he was unable to stem the tide of hits. After six successive batters had singled he was removed and Page went on the mound. The southpaw was at least able to hold his own, for the Crusaders made only four more hits and one run. In that seventh inning 11 runs were added...
Civic-minded Clevelanders have long dreamed of a great centre of scientific education. The first step in such a program would be the interchange of instruction between Case and its next-door neighbor Western Reserve, situated near University Circle, where Euclid Avenue, the city's main stem, turns toward the suburbs...
Analysis of fifteen language, ancient and modern gives statistical proof that this new law of language applies to syllables as well as words. With mechanical accuracy the more common cases of inflected nouns in Sanskrit are accented on the stem, while less used cases, genitive and dative for example, are accented on the endings to aid the hearer's ear. "For man's tendency to laziness," says Zipf, "will prevent his accenting any element in language which his hearer will understand with cut accent...