Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since death stilled the booming Samuel Johnson, lexicographers generally have preserved an antlike silence, an antlike industry. The late Henry Watson Fowler was no exception. Known on both sides of the Atlantic to scholars of all degrees as the author of Modern English Usage, most useful and authoritative of argument-settlers, and as an editor of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, he was so personally retiring, "so shadowy to the public that even at the Clarendon Press there were only two persons who had just once seen his face and heard his voice." This pamphlet-biography...
Eldest of eight children, whose father was a successful tutor, Henry Watson Fowler had a solid, no-nonsense British education at Rugby and Balliol, settled down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including...
...summary: HARVARD '38 B. U. '38 Weeks, Nesmith, Carstein, l.w. r.w., Fohlin, Hausen Roberts, Mechem, Sleeper, c. c., Kelley, Woodward Cutter, Pope, Emerson, r.w. l.w., Hickey, Corvelli Hicks, Russell, l.d. r.d., Chandler, Powell Allen, Eaton, r.d. l.d., Freeman, Hoar Watson, g. g., Hines...
...will give the second lecture, "The Moon and the Stars in Navigation," on Friday, and this will be followed by another lecture by Dr. Stetson, who speaks Saturday of this week on "The Earth, Radio, and the Moon." "Metoors and Meteor Craters on Earth and Moon," by Fletcher Watson, assistant in Astronomy, is scheduled for Monday, February 11, and Dr. Carol A. Rieke will deliver the last, "Theories of the Origins of the Earth and Moon" on Tuesday, February...
HARVARD MILTON Weeks, l.w. r.w., Scaife Cutter, r.w. l.w., Smith Roberts, c. c., Cunningham Hicks, l.d. r.d., Stone Allen, r.d. l.d., Perkins Watson, g. g., Wilder...