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Word: webster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Lanior Donnell, of Webster Groves High School and Webster Groves, Missouri, will edit the 1940 Freshman Red Book. Willard Perrin Fuller, Jr., of Noble and Greenough School and Dedham, will assist him as Business Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DONNELL, FULLER WILL EDIT 1940'S RED BOOK | 10/13/1936 | See Source »

Mississippi's Governor Hugh Lawson White and Louisiana's Richard Webster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...collect in definitive form the words that have meanings and currency peculiar to the U. S. Last week in Chicago appeared the first section, A-to-Baggage, of his long-awaited Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles* When complete the Dictionary will be as bulky as a Webster's Unabridged, will sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A-to-Baggage | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...spaicous tent, the garlands, the festoons. Clatter of plates and glasses formed a song for the celebration. Soon speeches by Governor Edw. Everett, and then toast after toast until all our heads were swimming merrily in the good refreshment of the college. Fine words and much sense from Mr. Webster who expounded the glories of our Constitution. Now more toasts to cities and states, until Mr. Saltonstall, Mayor of Salem and descendant of "that most excellent knight," spoke for his town. Now many songs, the whole assembly joining in the singing of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

...energy in beggars, elegance in peasants, even benevolence in misers and grandeur in porters and sweeps. In Newport, traditional home of Tories, toasts were still drunk to the King and culture was crippled by an affected admiration for English writing. In Connecticut the dry, energetic, cranky old genius, Noah Webster, was working out his dictionary that would establish a national language as a bond of national unity. New England life might be hard and strenuous, but when intellectuals looked toward Europe they saw a continent that was exhausted by the Napoleonic Wars. At the sight of such overseas confusion, despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Critic's Garland | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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