Author: Frances Johnson Skinner
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Languages : en
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Frances Johnson Skinner
Author: Frances Johnson Skinner
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Frances Johnson Skinner
Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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A dictionary, persian, arabic, and english by Francis Johnson
Author: Francis Johnson
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Languages : en
Pages : 1442
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Pages : 1442
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Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military and Naval [etc]
Author: United States. Department of the Interior
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1718
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1718
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Bulletin
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Those Yellowed Letters
Author: Frances Skinner Reeves
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453508910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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This true story is told through letters written to a college junior from an unwanted suitor just after World War II. His letters are fascinating but also a bit mad. Could this highly intelligent boy be suffering from adolescent angst and mental instability, or was he just head over heels in love with Sparrow? The reader is left to read between the lines of the untold story. The epilogue engenders warm feelings for the writer of the letters. The fact that he did well, that he is still around, and that he feels he had wronged his “Sparrow” with his obsession makes for a touching, interesting, and beautiful story.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1453508910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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This true story is told through letters written to a college junior from an unwanted suitor just after World War II. His letters are fascinating but also a bit mad. Could this highly intelligent boy be suffering from adolescent angst and mental instability, or was he just head over heels in love with Sparrow? The reader is left to read between the lines of the untold story. The epilogue engenders warm feelings for the writer of the letters. The fact that he did well, that he is still around, and that he feels he had wronged his “Sparrow” with his obsession makes for a touching, interesting, and beautiful story.
Who was who in American Art
Author: Peter H. Falk
Publisher: Madison, Conn. : Sound View Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Compiled from the original thirty-four volumes of: American art annual: who's who in art, biographies of American artists active from 1898-1947.
Publisher: Madison, Conn. : Sound View Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Compiled from the original thirty-four volumes of: American art annual: who's who in art, biographies of American artists active from 1898-1947.
The Roster of Texas Daughters Revolutionary Ancestors
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Texas Society
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Story of Ain't
Author: David Skinner
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062345753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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“It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edition, the dictionary that provoked America’s greatest language controversy. In those days, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster’s Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America’s newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam’s long held authoritarian principles to create a reference work that had “no traffic with…artificial notions of correctness or authority. It must be descriptive not prescriptive.” Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by “notions of correctness” set by the learned few. Dwight MacDonald, a formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster’s Third’s chief nemesis when in the pages of the New Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization.. The Story of Ain’t describes a great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, when the division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred, when the humanities and its figureheads were shunted aside by advances in scientific thinking. All the while, Skinner treats the reader to the chippy banter of the controversy’s key players. A dictionary will never again seem as important as it did in 1961.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062345753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
“It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edition, the dictionary that provoked America’s greatest language controversy. In those days, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster’s Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America’s newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam’s long held authoritarian principles to create a reference work that had “no traffic with…artificial notions of correctness or authority. It must be descriptive not prescriptive.” Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by “notions of correctness” set by the learned few. Dwight MacDonald, a formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster’s Third’s chief nemesis when in the pages of the New Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization.. The Story of Ain’t describes a great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, when the division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred, when the humanities and its figureheads were shunted aside by advances in scientific thinking. All the while, Skinner treats the reader to the chippy banter of the controversy’s key players. A dictionary will never again seem as important as it did in 1961.
Polk's Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Washtenaw County Directory
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Category : Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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Category : Ann Arbor (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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