Word: nebraskans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School's top men at the time, John C. Gray, chanced upon the Nebraskan in the library one afternoon, poring over Mackensie's Roman Law. Gray stopped and advised, "Don't read that." He picked a copy advised, "Don't read that." He picked a copy of the then recently published 1889 edition of Sohm's Institute from the shelves and set it down before Pound. "Read this," he admonished and walked on. Twenty years later Gray sat in Professor Pound's seminar on Roman...
...School's top men at the time, John C. Gray; chanced upon the Nebraskan in the library one afternoon, poring over Mackensie's Roman Law. Gray stopped and advised, "Don't read that." He picked up a copy of the then recently published 1889 edition of Sohar's. Institute and offered it to Pound as more profitable study. Twenty years later Gray sat in his seminar on Roman...
...introducing the Senator, Dean Hanford said that in his own contact with young men he had found that Norris's work was often an inspirational example to students. He praised the Nebraskan's contributions to the science of government by such ideas as his state's unicameral legislature and the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...Nebraskan who voted a straight Republican ticket yesterday, I want to say that George W. Norris' record was not "repudiated" by us. That wasn't the issue...
...been at work on this absorbing, 1,174-page thesaurus since 1931. He got special checking help from such experts as Bing Crosby (on music), Variety's Jack Edward (entertainment slang), John A. Leslie of Ohio State Prison on the language of tramps and the underworld. His collaborator, Nebraskan Philologist Melvin Van den Bark, worked out the main outlines of classification and groupings of words. In general these follow Roget but they culminate in 430 highly readable pages on "Special Slang" of various trades, sports and regions. That section alone will probably help more third-rate novelists look like...