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columnist
columnist the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has supplanted the editorial for authoritative opinions on world problems. Usually independent of the policy of the... Read more |
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William Parry Murphy
William Parry Murphy 1892-1987, American physician, b. Stoughton, Wis., M.D. Harvard, 1920. He taught at Harvard from 1923 and was associated with the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, in Boston, from 1922. He made special studies of diabetes and diseases of the blood and particularly of the liver... Read more |
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William Bolcom
William Bolcom (William Elden Bolcom), 1938-, American composer, b. Seattle, Wash. He attended the Univ. of Washington (B.A., 1958) and studied composition at Mills College and Stanford (D.M.A., 1964). Teaching at various colleges since 1965, he has been on the faculty of the Univ. of Michigan... Read more |
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AB Volvo
AB Volvo S-405 08 G |
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Ik Marvel
Ik Marvel, pseudonym of D.G. Mitchell.... Read more |
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kindergarten
kindergarten XIX. — G., ‘children's garden’, f. g. pl. of kind child + garten GARDEN.... Read more |
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West Side Story
WEST SIDE STORY USA, 1961 Directors:Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins Production:Mirisch Pictures, Seven Arts Productions, Beta Productions; Technicolor, Panavision, 70mm; running time: 152 minutes. Producer:Robert Wise; screenplay:Ernest Lehman; ... Read more |
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Clifford Odets
Clifford Odets , 1906-63, American dramatist, b. Philadelphia. After graduating from high school he became an actor and in 1931 joined the Group Theatre . Turning his attention from acting to playwriting, Odets soon came to be regarded as the most gifted of the American naturalistic social-protest... Read more |
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William Cartwright
William Cartwright 1611-43, English author and divine. An ardent royalist and disciple of Ben Jonson , he had a high reputation as a preacher and author. In addition to his poems, which are now almost entirely forgotten, Cartwright wrote plays, of which The Ordinary (1635?) and The Royal Slave ... Read more |
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William Hone
William Hone 1780-1842, English writer and bookseller. He was tried and acquitted three times in 1817 for publishing parodies on the church and the government. Besides writing political satires (illustrated by Cruikshank), he published highly popular compilations of miscellaneous information on... Read more |
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Quasi‐War with France
...in his own Federalist party, Adams authorized William Vans Murray, Oliver Ellsworth, and William R. Davie to negotiate a settlement. In the resulting...Alexander DeConde , The Quasi‐War, 1966. Daniel G. Lang , Foreign Policy in the Early Republic... |
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Peirce, Charles Sanders
...and How to Make Our Ideas Clear— William James, in 1898, called “the birth...selection.Peirce's influence on William James, John Dewey, and the...War to World War I.Bibliography Murray G. Murphey , The Development of Peirce... |
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Surgery
...1849 vesicovaginal fistula.After William T.G. Morton, a dentist, developed sulfuric...became the norm in American surgery. William Stewart Halsted's popularization...and pharmacology enabled Joseph Murray to accomplish the first successful... |
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USAGE GUIDANCE AND CRITICISM
...grammars of the language were written by William Bullokar (1586), Ben Jonson (1640...source of the better-known work of Lindley Murray, an American grammarian who lived in England and wrote the...underline;">The Use of English (1949), G. H. Vallins's See all related encyclopedia articles Dictionary entries related to "Murray William G"
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