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Noah and Webster's
Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour ; on the other hand, Noah Webster's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spellings like center and the Latinate color.
Though he never attended college, Webster's father was intellectually curious and prized education ; his mother spent long hours teaching Noah and his siblings spelling, mathematics and music.
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture ( 2011 )
This meaning was widely adopted early in the history of the United States, including in Noah Webster's dictionary of 1828.
* Noah Webster ( 1758-1843 ), an American known for creating Webster's Dictionary
Webster's Dictionary refers to the line of dictionaries first developed by Noah Webster in the early 19th century, and also to numerous unrelated dictionaries that added Webster's name just to share his prestige.
Worcester and Goodrich's abridgment of Noah Webster's 1841 ( 1844 ) edition was printed, this time by Harper and Brothers of New York City, in 1844, with added words as an appendix.
It was the first edition to largely overhaul Noah Webster's work, and the first to be known as the Unabridged.
Some of these were unauthorized reprints of Noah Webster's work ; some were revisions of his work.
One such revision was Webster's Imperial Dictionary, based on John Ogilvie's The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, itself an expansion of Noah Webster's American Dictionary.
In 1917, a US court ruled that Webster's entered the public domain in 1834 when Noah Webster's 1806 dictionary's copyright lapsed.
However, Merriam-Webster revisionists find solid ground in Noah Webster's concept of the English language as an ever-changing tapestry.
Noah Webster's main competitor was a man named Joseph Emerson Worcester, whose 1830 Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language brought accusations of plagiarism from Webster.
Among larger dictionaries during this period was ( non-Merriam ) Webster's Universal Dictionary ( also published as Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary ) which traced its roots to Noah Webster and called itself " unabridged ", but had less than half the vocabulary and paled in scholarship against the Merriam editions.

Noah and assistant
On February 6, 1835, an assistant president of the church, W. W. Phelps, wrote a letter theorizing that the curse of Cain survived the deluge by passing through the wife of Ham, son of Noah, who according to Phelps was a descendant of Cain.
Based on the story of Noah's Ark from the Book of Genesis starring Donald Duck as first mate to Noah and Daisy Duck as Donald's assistant.
During the remainder of the 1920s, Hathaway learned his craft as an assistant, helping direct future stars such as Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Wray, Walter Huston, Clara Bow, and Noah Beery.

Noah and later
The Covenant of Grace forms the basis of the later covenants with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and the New Covenant in Christ.
Those that follow this command are later angered at themselves and King Noah for leaving their families.
They then turn on the priests of Noah who flee before the people, later becoming the Amulonites.
God makes a covenant with Noah just as with Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad later on ( XXXIII: 7 ).
Noah is later reviled by his people and reproached by them for being a mere human messenger and not an angel ( X: 72-74 ).
In the Mesopotamian epics, Atrahasis ( Utnapishtim ) is glorified as a hero for his epic deeds of building and loading the ark, whereas Genesis simply says,Noah did all that the LORD commanded him .” Obedience to God, not human courage, is the focus in the later Genesis narrative.
John Lemprière, in Bibliotheca Classica, notes that as the story was re-told in later versions it accumulated details from the stories of Noah and Moses: " Thus Apollodorus gives Deucalion a great chest as a means of safety ; Plutarch speaks of the pigeons by which he sought to find out whether the waters had retired ; and Lucian of the animals of every kind which he had taken with him & c ."
French for “ beautiful green ,” this was the name chosen by both Noah Speer for his little community on the Monongahela River and later by his son Louis, who founded a town with nearly the same name just up the hill ( North Belle Vernon ).
According to White, a great influence on his academic career was Professor Noah Porter ( later, Yale's president ), who personally instructed him in rhetoric and remained a close personal friend until Porter's death.
He served in the Royal Artillery from March 1940 to June 1942 but quickly returned to acting after discharge, appearing with Noël Coward in This Happy Breed and Present Laughter and later as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit, which he later named in Who's Who in the Theatre as one of his two favourite parts along with the title role in André Obey's Noah.
Noah, Carly Beth's kid brother, later bursts in and asks her, " How do I look in your mask?
Beery died on November 1, 1994, so the first of these movies, which aired later that month, stated, " This picture is dedicated to the memory of Noah Beery, Jr. We love you and miss you, Pidge.
" A later almanack by Noah Webster, The Old Farmer's Almanac, was inspired in part by Poor Richard's.
Noah himself is said to have visited them here about 100 years later.
Milo Minderbinder has become the archetypal unabashed war profiteer in the American novel, better known than the first example of the species, the character Charles Holt in the 1863 novel The Days of Shoddy by Henry Morford, and the later characters Marcus Hubbard in the play Another Part of the Forest, Joe Keller in the Miller play All My Sons and Noah Rosewater in the Vonnegut novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.
The Sibylline oracles are therefore a pastiche of Greek and Roman pagan mythology, employing motifs of Homer and Hesiod ; Judeo-Christian legends such as the Garden of Eden, Noah and the Tower of Babel ; Gnostic and early Christian homilies and eschatological writings ; thinly veiled references to historical figures such as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra, as well as many allusions to the events of the later Roman Empire, often portraying Rome in a negative light.
The heroes later travel to Dezo to seek out Lutz ( Noah was an incarnation in the first game ), and after Rolf awakens him from a long sleep, he informs them that the people of Algo have now devoted themselves to Mother Brain and, because of this, the entire system is near its fate.
Some time later, in the midst of the Battle City tournament, the Big Five's digital consciousnesses are discovered stranded in cyberspace by a mysterious boy named Noah, who recruits them for a revenge campaign against Kaiba.
As Yugi and his friends defeat the Big Five, Kaiba's past is revealed ( see above ), and Noah admits to being Gozaburo Kaiba's biological son, and claims his mind exists as a computer program after he was fatally wounded as a child and later digitized.
When it returned to the West End Phil Collins, who later achieved fame with Genesis and had been one of the original Dodgers, rejoined the production to play Noah Claypole.
Adam and Eve do not transgress, and later on Noah is credited only with the invention of shipping.
A few days later, Noah has a stroke and is hospitalized.

Noah and chief
An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the flood because he desired to destroy the world he had made, but the First Thought informed Noah of the chief archon's plans, and Noah informed the remainder of humanity.
Mulholland is split between the characters of Noah Cross ( John Huston ) and the city's chief engineer Hollis Mulwray ( Darrell Zwerling ).
The first chief judge was Alma ( known as Alma the Younger ), the son of that Alma who had been a priest of King Noah.
Joseph Emerson Worcester ( August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865 ) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century.
At the instance of Rabbi Isaac Noah Mannheimer of Vienna he was called to the Austrian capital as chief cantor in 1826.
Jack Noah ( Richard Dreyfuss ), an unemployed American actor on vacation in Parador, is kidnapped by Strausman ( Raul Julia ), the President's chief advisor, and is forced to act as the President's substitute after he dies of a heart attack.

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