Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first-rate rivals. Funk & Wagnalls' Standard (cost: $16) features new spellings, has had for its editor since 1914 the most famed U. S. lexicographer. Frank Horace Vizetelly, 70. But most U. S. citizens still settle their bets by ''looking it up in Webster...
...year George Washington made peace with George III a young Hartford, Conn.† lawyer named Noah Webster (no kin to the later Daniel) published a spelling book. In 1807 he set his great jaw, sat down to write an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold...
...Mallinckrodt MB23 Classical Philology 45 Sever 29 Economics 6a Harvard 5 Economics 17 Sever 7 Engin. Sciences 7c Pierce 302 English 1a New Lect. Hall English 2a New Lect. Hall English 3c Memorial Hall French 6 Professor Morize, Sec. 1 Memorial Hall Professor Allard, Sec. 2 Memorial Hall Dr. Webster, Sec. 3 Memorial Hall Mr. Penny, Sec. 4 Memorial Hall Geology 23b Sever 9 German 28 Sever 29 Greek 2 Sever 29 History 15 Harvard 6 History 17 Harvard 3 History of Science 1 Sever 17 Mathematics A VI (see footnote) Dr. Seidel, Sec. 1 Geol. Lect...
...Mallinckrodt MB23 Classical Philology 45 Sever 29 Economics 6a Harvard 5 Economics 17 Sever 7 Engin. Sciences 7c Pierce 302 English 4a New Lect. Hall English 28 New Lect. Hall English 33 Memorial Hall French 6 Professor Morize, Sec. 1 Memorial Hall Professor Allard, Sec. 2 Memorial Hall Dr. Webster, Sec. 3 Memorial Hall Mr. Penny, Sec. 4 Memorial Hall Geology 23b Sever 8 German 23 Sever 29 Greek 2 Sever 29 History 15 Harvard...
...catch a boat that will get him and the other U. S. golfers back in time for the U. S. Open at Ardmore, Pa., June 7, Little had time to receive the huge cup from the Marquess of Ailsa and say: "I would need all of Shakespeare and Webster adequately to express my thanks. . . . The cup will be kept nice and shiny...