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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon, with the help of a friend named Russell Sharp, W.P. had devised a book that seemed to be the answer. Inexpensively bound in brown paper, it was a workbook filled with simple sentences from Dickens and Longfellow as well as phrases about Sharp's pet dog Fogy. "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Speller | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

His mail-order business grew so fast that within a few months he had filled his basement with books to be mailed. When his wife protested that she hadn't enough room to do the washing, he moved his Webster Publishing Co. (named after Noah and Daniel) to two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Speller | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Speller | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Today, after 25 years, W.P.'s Webster Publishing Co. of St. Louis is at the top of the U.S. speller business and his idea has spread. Other publishers have long since begun turning out workbooks like Johnson's. Last week, at W.P.'s silver anniversary banquet, President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Top Speller | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

In four years of hammer-&-tongs competition for players and grandstand customers, the old, established National Football League and the brash new All-America Football Conference had almost succeeded in beating each other unconscious. To outside pleas for a merger, each side replied through gritted teeth that the other'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Wonderful | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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