Word: merriam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turns out, 340 Merriam Ave. was also the home address of Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67--one of the company's founders and officers...
...private company run by Harvard officials that collected admission and financial aid information to share with other schools, was based somewhere in Boston. But there was no listing for the company in any of the local phone directories. Massachusetts public records said the company was run from 340 Merriam Ave. in nearby Weston, yet it was not listed in that directory, either...
Baker had been consultant to the Merriam Webster dictionaries for drama terms. In mid-summer his copy of the great Second Edition arrived and he had the massive twenty-pound volume placed on a side-board in the dining room. Mr. and Mrs. Baker, three very bright teenage grandchildren and I ate our meals together Scarcely a meal passed but some unusual word would come up for discussion. Then I would go to the dictionary, read the relevant definition, and the etymology, and we would bandy the word about. That's how I learned the riches that he hidden...
Four centuries are represented in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack Prelutsky ($13.95). William Blake is here; so are Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, alongside such modern versifiers as Spike Milligan, Eve Merriam and Karla Kuskin. A zoo of creatures passes in review, from pachyderms ("I think they had no pattern/ When they cut out the elephant's skin;/ Some places it needs letting out,/ And others, taking in") to birds ("The song of canaries/ Never var ies,/ And when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time...
...Ethics are low in this town, says John Merriam, publisher of a newsletter about the Washington media. "There just ain't no political standards." Debate positions normally are taken from the previous public stands of the candidates. Says Ben Wattenberg, a political analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute: "Maybe the person who turned over the papers saved a Reagan research team an awful lot of trouble...