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He was co-editor ( with William Bright ) of the book The World's Writing Systems ( 1996 ), and he introduced the terms abjad ( an " alphabet " with no vowel letters ) and abugida ( a system partly alphabetic, partly syllabic ) as modern linguistic terms for categories of scripts.
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He was co-editor ( with Marshall Swain ) of Essays on Knowledge and Justification ( 1978 ), regarded as a key anthology of essays relating to the Gettier problem and used as a core text in undergraduate epistemology courses.
The individualist anarchist George MacDonald was a co-editor of Freethought and, for a time, The Truth Seeker.
When McCormick assumed the position of co-editor ( with his cousin Joseph Medill Patterson ) in 1910, the Tribune was the third-best-selling paper among Chicago's eight dailies, with a circulation of only 188, 000.
With his research assistant, Veronica M. Boulter ( later his wife ) Toynbee was co-editor of the RIIA's annual Survey of International Affairs, which became the " bible " for international specialists in Britain.
He was also art director on most of the early films, editor or co-editor on many of them ( often credited as Franz Walsh, though the spelling varies ), and he acted in nineteen of his own films as well as for other directors.
While there, Fairbanks was co-editor of the school newspaper with Cornelia Cole, whom he married after both graduated from the school.
William Maxwell Gaines ( March 1, 1922 – June 3, 1992 ), better known as Bill Gaines, was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics.
He also wrote many leading law review articles and was co-editor of the leading casebook on labor law.
Editing Doug Moench's The Wanderers, Berger was joined on issue # 5 ( Oct 1988 ) by co-editor Art Young, who would also later be instrumental in the formation of Vertigo.
In December 2006, the French version published an article by Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of CounterPunch, which strongly criticized the endorsement of conspiracy theories by the US left-wing, alleging that it was a sign of " theoretical emptiness.
Between 1893 and 1894 he was the co-editor, along with Alfred Jarry, of L ' Ymagier, a magazine dedicated to symbolist wood carvings.
As Coolidge was unwilling to move from Boston to New York, Hamilton Fish Armstrong a Princeton alumnus and a European correspondent of the New York Evening Post ( now known as the New York Post ) was appointed as a co-editor and was sent to work in New York to handle the mechanical work of publishing the journal.
Born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Fraser attended St Thomas University where in his freshman year he played on the varsity hockey and football teams, and in his junior year was co-editor with John Brebner of the student literary magazine Tom-Tom.
Fry was its co-editor between 1909 and 1919 ( first with Lionel Cust, then with Cust and More Adey ) but his influence on the Burlington Magazine continued until his death: Fry was in the Consultative Committee of the Burlington since its beginnings and when he left the editorship, following a dispute with Cust and Adey regarding the editorial policy on modern art, he was able to use his influence on the Committee to choose the successor he considered appropriate, Robert Rattray Tatlock.
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Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
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