The origin of the word jazz has had wide spread interest – the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century — which has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented.

Recent significant research in this area has been conducted by members of the American Dialect Society.

" In later publications " whatever can happen will happen " occasionally is termed " Murphy's law ," which raises the possibility — if something went wrong — that " Murphy " is " De Morgan " misremembered ( an option, among others, raised by Goranson on American Dialect Society list ).

American Dialect Society member Bill Mullins has found a slightly broader version of the aphorism in reference to stage magic.

" Anne Roe's papers are in the American Philosophical Society archives in Philadelphia ; those records ( as noted by Stephen Goranson on the American Dialect Society list 12 / 31 / 2008 ) identify the interviewed physicist as Howard Percy " Bob " Robertson ( 1903 – 1961 ).

Robertson's papers are at the Caltech archives ; there, in a letter Robertson offers Roe an interview within the first three months of 1949 ( as noted by Goranson on American Dialect Society list 5 / 9 / 2009 ).

The second, " American " variety, affecting only, can be found in the northern United States, the Mid-Atlantic Dialect region, California, and probably in many other parts of the country, as it appears to be spreading.

Because of its prolific use during this period, the American Dialect Society voted " weapons of mass destruction " ( and its abbreviation, " WMD ") the word of the year in 2002, and in 2003 Lake Superior State University added WMD to its list of terms banished for " Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness ".

* Speech by Amelia Earhart from the collection American English Dialect Recordings, Library of Congress

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American Dialect Society, December 27, 2005.

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Barry Popik of the American Dialect Society suggests that the word should be traced back to an American folksong called Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, which was first popular in 1868.

A scholar of linguistics, Lowell was one of the founders of the American Dialect Society.

The American Dialect Society list archives includes numerous posts by Stephen Goranson that cite research into uses soon after the above.

The earliest known use, which like the 1961 and 1966 examples above was found by Bonnie Taylor-Blake of the American Dialect Society, is from 1981, again from Philadelphia, and presents the " black ink " theory as one of several competing possibilities:

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A neologism arising from the popularity and dominance of the eponymous search engine, the American Dialect Society chose it as the " most useful word of 2002.

American Dialect Society member Stephen Goranson has shown that the term was in use by 1749, when Vernon was still alive.

Soccer moms received so much attention during the election that the American Dialect Society voted " soccer mom " Word of the Year for 1996.

This term was voted 2010 Fan Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society in a 79 % vote.

The American Dialect Society defines it as " an unanticipated exposure of bodily parts ".

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

He is a member both of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society ; ;

two American Watercolor Society prizes ; ;

Other memberships include the American Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club, Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, Baltimore Watercolor Society.

The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work.

Similarly, the American Cancer Society ( ACS ), the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, and the BBB have each stated lately that medical quackery is at a new high.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

) She has since turned to Bellini, whose opera `` Beatrice Di Tenda '' in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her to New York last season.

" He closely followed Henry Clay in supporting the American Colonization Society program of making the abolition of slavery practical by helping the freed slaves to settle in Liberia in Africa.

* Alain Connes and Matilde Marcolli: Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives, Colloquium Publications, American Mathematical Society, 2007, ISBN 978-0821842102

* Alain Connes, Andre Lichnerowicz, Marcel Paul Schutzenberger, Jennifer Gage ( translator ): Triangle of Thought, American Mathematical Society, 2001, ISBN 978-0821826140

* American Astronomical Society

The political scientist Michael Barkun discussing the usage of this term in contemporary American culture holds that a conspiracy theory is a belief which explains an event as the result of a secret plot by exceptionally powerful and cunning conspirators to achieve a malevolent end.

This functional definition still holds true in North America, where two other sizeable groups, Unamended Christadelphians and the CGAF, are not received by most North American Amended ecclesias.

In British English it is not necessary to indicate an abbreviation with a full stop ( period ) after the abbreviation, when the last letter of the abbreviation is the same as the unabbreviated word, while the opposite holds true in North American English.

" Mike Bogue of American Kaiju said the film " not liv up to its potential ," but added that " colorful and elaborate spectacle eventually won me over " and " the main story thread dealing with the eventual reconciliation of the divorced couple adequately holds the human plot together.

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

It has Native American features, wears a Mayan style cloak and holds the gold plates in its left hand

* 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies ; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.

Through the utilization of the National Practitioner Data Bank, Healthcare Integrity Protection Databank, Federation of State Medical Boards Disciplinary Report, and American Medical Association Physician Profile Service, the 67 State Medical Boards ( MD / DO ) continually self-report any Adverse / Disciplinary Actions taken against a licensed Physician in order that the other Medical Boards in which the Physician holds or is applying for a Medical License will be properly notified so that corrective, reciprocal action can be taken against the offending physician.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

Phelps holds the record for the most gold medals won in a single Olympics, his eight at the 2008 Beijing Games surpassed American swimmer Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at Munich in 1972.

* November 2 – Vietnam War: U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders (" the Wise Men ") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort.

** American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy ( the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them ).

The province's capital of Maastricht holds a street Carnival featuring elaborate costumes that resemble some South American and Venetian influences.

Buick holds the distinction as the oldest active American make.

Thus certain plants, including the traveler's tree ( so called because its trunk holds potable water ), are found both in Madagascar and on the South American continent, but not in Africa.

The blogosphere term fisking originates from various American conservative blogs, which have taken particular issue with Mr. Fisk, who holds a " very skeptical view of U. S. foreign policy ", and his articles and reports.

Discussing the role of fortune-telling in society, Ronald H. Isaacs, an American rabbi and author, opined, “ Since time immemorial humans have longed to learn that which the future holds for them.

The film is considered one of the most inspirational and best loved movies in American cinema as it currently holds an 8. 7 out of 10 rating on the IMDB consumer reviews and a 93 % FRESH rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Edna Krabappel holds a Master's from Bryn Mawr College, but is thoroughly jaded, a caricature of the American public school system.

DuMont also holds another important place in American television history.

It also holds works by a wide range of influential European and American artists including Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Walker Evans, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Dorothea Lange, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Frank Stella, and hundreds of others.

The National Archives Building in downtown Washington holds record collections such as all existing federal census records, ships ' passenger lists, military unit records from the American Revolution to the Philippine-American War, records of the Confederate government, the Freedmen's Bureau records, and pension and land records.

The film also holds position # 54 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list of the top 100 funniest films in movie history, and in 2006 was voted by Premiere one of " The 50 Greatest Comedies Of All Time ".

Despite the age of these marches, the history it holds and its performance in the United States, they are generally not thought of as " typical American march music.