Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorts of math problems for troubled bobby-soxers. "Geometry," he found, "they just don't dig." So many questions poured in that Waldron soon realized the station's "reference library-a 1943 Who's Who, a 1950 Information Please Almanac and a big, beat-up Webster's Dictionary" would never see him through...
...Theory of American Literature, Howard Mumford Jones asserts that American academic aversion to its national literature was due to its abhorrence of the clean break which American authors were trying to make with European literary tradition. Noah Webster called for a purely American language, and a literature not based on "the mouldering pillars of antiquity...
...like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps that Hoffa joins the capon ranks in no time. New Capon Hoffa, certainly economically "fattened for the table" (Webster), will join the docile when the committee leaves the roost for the chopping block...
...lawyers and judges on both sides of the Atlantic, e.g., in Chief Justice Earl Warren's majority opinion on the Watkins case (TIME, July i). The complexities and oddities of Coke's Commentary upon Littleton helped make a lawyer of Patrick Henry in six weeks, drove Daniel Webster to "despair," and got from Thomas Jefferson the tribute of being the law's "universal elementary book...
Soon after the taverns, Daniel Webster came to Boston, and then the Liberator, the transcendentalists, and God. At the height of Boston's literary renaissance Walt Whitman came, and walked with Emerson, listening for two hours in 1860 to his talk. Of Emerson's involved arguments, Whitman said, "While I can't answer them at all, I feel more settled than ever to adhere to my own theory and exemplify...