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...notice, opposed to, to progress and to advocate. Editor William Cullen Bryant forbade his reporters to use lengthy, presidential, and to legislate. Meanwhile, John Adams proposed a national institution to provide "a public standard for all persons ... to appeal to." The institution that the nation eventually got was Noah Webster...
CHARLES REIS Webster Groves...
...Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
...back as November, Doris Hall, 13 and a big girl for her age, went into training. She persuaded her teacher to excuse her from some of her routine school-work in the eighth grade (she still got straight As), and she began thumbing through Webster's Collegiate Dictionary at the rate of 50 pages a day. When she had finished the dictionary once, she started all over again, making long lists of words she was still not sure of. Then, just to make certain, she began combing Mademoiselle, the Atlantic Monthly, TIME and The New Yorker for unusual words...
...That Ain't Good (Ben Webster; Decca). The onetime Ellington saxophonist gives a well-padded version of one of the Duke's best...