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Word: webster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your reviewer also says, "Author Sassoon is not only an able fox-huntsman. . . ." There is no such word as "fox-huntsman." Webster might consider that anyone who hunts is a huntsman, but if our contributors on equine matters used the word loosely in The Alain Liner, we should receive letters of friendly ridicule, if not scorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Webster's New International permits "papist" as the shortest synonym for Roman Catholic. Nevertheless, the word has so often been used in bitterness that TIME will no longer use it, except when quoting persons who say "papist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...George Canning and the Alliance", Professor Webster, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

...George Canning and the Alliance", Professor Webster, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

...Britain; the Alliance or Revolution", Professor Webster, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/19/1929 | See Source »

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