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...Edward Stevens Sheldon, who died on October 16 of this year, devoted the greater part of his mature life to investigation of the sources of our English vocabulary, having change of that department in successive revision of Webster's Dictionary, now called the International. Into such study he carried that unusual blend of divination, balance, and minute discrimination which characterized both his linguistic research and his literary judgments. None was more original than he, none more rigidly selfenitical. Hence the enduring character of his achievement...
...Webster's New International Dictionary says that as a verb "pander" may mean "to cater," which is about the sense in which it was used in the passage cited. As a noun Webster says it may mean "an intermediary; an interagent," but adds that this meaning is "rare...
...poet that ever lived delighted in amassing such curious, half-forgotten sounds; not even Francis Thompson had so great a vocabulary of rare and archaic terms. . . . The explanation here is simpler. Nathalia collects words the way a boy of her age collects postage stamps; she had thumbed Noah Webster's work (in various editions) and made a glossary of her own. The dictionary is her playbox and she knows exactly where every odd toy is concealed...
...Back Roxbury Harvey, J. S., '28 20 190 5.11 Guard St. Mark's Failing, J., '27 21 167 6. Back Andover Cox, D. B., '28 19 184 6. Back Loomis Caldwell, B., '28 19 169 5.10 Back Cumbarland H. S. Nobel, L. M., '27 21 165 6.1 Back Kent Webster, W. A., '28S 22 189 6. Tackle Hotchkiss Lindley, D. A., '26 21 155 5.8 Back Hotchkiss Wallace, W. S. '26 22 185 5.11 Guard Taft Winecke, L. G., '26S 26 155 5.11 Back Andover Sanger, S., '26S 21 156 5.10 End Roxbury Clayton...
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