Word: thesaurus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blue cards, to be attached to interoffice correspondence, an oft-repeated question of Secretary Morgenthau: "Does it contribute to Recovery?" At the White House, when Mr. Roosevelt expressed displeasure at "appeasement," correspondents asked him for a better word. He mused a while, then said he would look in his Thesaurus, tell them later...
...John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases, Henry Thomas Buckle's History of Civilization are three indispensable aids to erudite orators...
...hundred Harvard men, more contributors than from any other college, have written articles for the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, according to a recent survey. In all there are 3,700 contributors to the 20-volume thesaurus of knowledge. American contributors number 1,250 and of these 16 per cent., or 200 authorities hold degrees from Harvard...
...flatness of circus lemonade. There are also the over-fecund keys of typewriter and linotype, where flying fingers run riot in a manner unknown to the plodding scribe and compositor of an earlier day. Finally, there are the advertisers, who distill the strongest potations from Mr. Roget's Thesaurus to set off the merits of each new whisk-broom...
...Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869), French-descended English physiologist and physician, onetime secretary of the Royal Society, after 50 years compilation published his famed and useful Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852, "so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition." His son John Lewis Roget enlarged and improved the Thesaurus in new editions until his death in 1908. John Lewis' son, Samuel Romilly Roget, physicist who did important work on the "aging"' and electro magnetic qualities of iron, continued the family revisions until 1911. Since then this reference book has been...