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When we turn to Noah Webster we find him helpful as usual.
* 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.
Contemporary scholars and patriots such as Noah Webster, John Trumbull, and Joel Barlow were instrumental in securing the passage of these statutes.
* 1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
Another American admirer was lexicographer Noah Webster.
* Noah Webster
* Noah Webster ( October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843 )
Noah Webster painted by Samuel F. B. Morse
Noah Webster, Jr. ( October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843 ), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.
His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.
Politician Daniel Webster was Noah Webster ’ s cousin.
The first major statutory revision of U. S. copyright law, the 1831 Act was a result of intensive lobbying by Noah Webster and his agents in Congress.
Noah Webster, The Schoolmaster of the Republic.
Noah Webster 4-cent United States Postal Service | United States stamp, 1958
On May 28, 1843, a few days after he had completed revising an appendix to the second edition, and with much of his efforts with the dictionary still unrecognized, Noah Webster died.
Rebecca Greenleaf Webster, wife of Noah Webster
Noah Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf ( 1766 – 1847 ) on October 26, 1789, New Haven, Connecticut.
* " Noah Webster " in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes ( 1907 – 21 ).
* Bynack, Vincent P. " Noah Webster and the Idea of a National Culture: the Pathologies of Epistemology.
Noah Webster and the American Dictionary ( 2005 )
* Morgan, John S. Noah Webster ( 1975 ), popular biography

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" Let sacred things be appropriated for sacred purposes ," wrote Webster.
As part of the " Great Triumvirate " or " Immortal Trio ," along with his colleagues Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun, he was instrumental in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850.
In 1892 the developers of Webster Park, an early housing subdivision, promoted the new community as the " Queen of the Suburbs ," offering residents superb housing options in a country-like atmosphere, as well as a swift commute to downtown St. Louis jobs.
Since then, Webster Groves ' tree-lined streets and abundance of single family homes have continued to attract people to the area as a " great place to live, work and play ," not solely for the wealthy commuter suburb that early developers envisioned but for families that cut across all socioeconomic lines.
The local newspaper, the " Webster County Citizen ," was owned and run by Joe Stanard.
And the Orient Point Inn, which opened in 1796, played host to President Grover Cleveland, Walt Whitman, orator Daniel Webster, actress Sarah Bernhardt and James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote " Sea Lions ," set in Orient.
The unofficial name has gone so far that the county commission's letterhead reads " Webster Springs ," rather than Addison, which it had previously.
* Juliet McMaster, " Young Jane Austen and the First Canadian Novel: From Emily Montague to ' Amelia Webster ' and Love and Freindship ," Eighteenth-Century Fiction 11 ( April 1999 ): 339-46.
In his poem " Whispers of Immortality ," T. S. Eliot memorably says that Webster always saw " the skull beneath the skin ".
Only WW ," " WW " was intended to refer to William Webster.
" We can win no laurels in a war for independence ," Webster acknowledged in 1825.
* Webster, James ( 2005 ) " The sublime and the pastoral in The Creation and The Seasons ," in Caryl Leslie Clark, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Haydn.
Benjamin Francis Webster ( March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973 ), a. k. a. " The Brute " or " Frog ," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Members of Glanton's gang: Doctor Irving, Juan " McGill " Miguel, the " Delawares ," Grannyrat, Chambers ( the " veteran "), Samuel Tate ( the " Kentuckian "), Bathcat ( the " Vandiemenlander "), Shelby ( a Kentuckian who attended Transylvania University ), Marcus " Long " Webster ( another Tennessean ), Carroll, Sanford, Sloat
The classic Max Webster lineup was featured, from the High Class in Borrowed Shoes era: Kim Mitchell, Terry Watkinson, Mike Tilka and Gary McCracken ( who sang " A Million Vacations ," with drummer Robert Sibony on drums for the tune ).
Conation is defined by Funk & Wagnalls Standard Comprehensive International Dictionary ( 1977 ) as " the aspect of mental process directed by change and including impulse, desire, volition and striving ," and by the Living Webster Encyclopedia Dictionary of the English Language ( 1980 ) as " one of the three modes, together with cognition and affection, of mental function ; a conscious effort to carry out seemingly volitional acts.
* " Herrera, Fernando de ," in Merriam Webster ’ s Encyclopedia of Literature, Edition 1, 1995.
In early 1947, Kurt Webster, a disc jockey on WBT, the 50, 000 watt station in Charlotte, North Carolina, had a program, " Midnight Dancing Party ," which was heard along the East Coast from Bangor, Maine to Boot Key, Florida.
They engage in a deep conversation, where Webster notes that instead of just " seeing ," Virgil should instead " look ;" there are a lot of things that sight alone cannot solve.
His solos, like those on the Lunceford recordings " White Heat " and " Rhythm Is Our Business ," were later recreated note-for-note by trumpeters such as Paul Webster and Ollie Mitchell.

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