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...place has changed," he might murmur, and his words would be echoed by the shades of John Endicott, George Washington, and Daniel Webster--all of whom dwelt on the spot known today as Scollay Square...
...Webster's New International. Please tell your readers (and me): is it accented on second or third syllable...
Last week he arrived at the DaiIchi every morning at 8, drove his subordinates without mercy. As each draft of each message to the Reds' came up from his joint planning group, he went over it word by word, referring often to the Webster's unabridged dictionary which he keeps handy, inserting a new word here, dropping an unnecessary phrase there...
...infantryman as a G.I. The Army thought that G.I. (which came out of World War II and stands for Government Issue) was too undignified. Henceforth, "all references to a man in the Army should identify him primarily as a soldier . . . The term soldier is ancient and honorable. Webster defines a soldier as 'a skilled warrior' and never before in history has a soldier so richly deserved this definition...
...Houston's Rice Institute, President Lewis Webster Jones of the University of Arkansas warned the graduating seniors: "We are raising our own [barbarian] . . . he mass man, the self-satisfied man [who] accepts as part of the order of nature all the wonderful achievements of his own civilization . . . takes them as given, feels no personal responsibility for the society which has made them possible. He expects to use and exploit them. He prides himself on being the average man. If he admires anything outside himself, it is the 'smart operator,' the getter-by, the fixer...