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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Printed proceedings from the event]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Guests commemorating the august publication were given the large menu with their consommé vermicelli and fried breast of chicken. After the fact, in a smaller format, the proceedings were printed, including a list of attendees. At least four of Noah Webster’s descendants attended, including Emily E.F. Skeel, the tireless bibliographer of works by her great-grandfather. These two items, which belonged to one of those relatives, were acquired from materials descended through the Fowler line of the family. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 100 ]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[“Dinner to Announce the Publication of Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition”]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Menu]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 100 ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[25 June 1934.]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Hotel Kimball, Springfield, Massachusetts]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Webster’s New International Dictionary]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[2d ed.]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[With a staff of more than 300 and an investment of $25 million (in today’s money), Webster’s Second was Merriam-Webster’s most ambitious dictionary project to date. The editors benefited from the recently completed OED, the Century, and Funk &amp; Wagnalls, just as the editors of those works consulted Merriam dictionaries. (The key was to compose entries that were different enough to seem original.) W2 remains one of the greatest dictionaries ever produced, still a favorite of the U.S. Supreme Court. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[William Allan Neilson, ed]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 100 ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[G. &amp; C. Merriam Co.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1934]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Springfield, MA]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Clipped signature of William Allan Neilson]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[William Torrey Harris’s successor as chief editor of Merriam’s flagship dictionary was William Allan Neilson, a Scottish poetry expert and Shakespeare scholar who, in 1917, became president of Smith College. In 1924, he accepted an invitation to become the chief editor of Webster’s Second New International (W2), saying, “There is probably no book that has been written in a hundred years that has done so much . . . for the country at large as [this] Dictionary.”]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 100 ]]></dcterms:source>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Photo of William Allan Neilson seated with Eleanor Roosevelt]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 100 ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Ca. 1940]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[“IMPORTANT NOTICE”]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Brochure accompanying Webster’s New International Dictionary. ]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[To accompany its big book, Merriam issued this four-page brochure with redline call-outs to illustrate all the elements of its typographically complex pages. One wonders how many dictionary users heeded the admonition to “read this carefully before beginning to use” the dictionary. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner.HHD no. 89 ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[G. &amp; C. Merriam Co.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1909]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:type><![CDATA[Physical Object]]></dcterms:type>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Springfield]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Webster’s New International Dictionary]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[While serving as superintendent of St. Louis schools in 1878, William Torrey Harris reviewed a Merriam-Webster dictionary. By 1900, he had moved to Massachusetts to bring Webster into the 20th century. Harris innovated the “divided page,” which relegated uncommon and obsolete words to the foot of the page in compact type, making it possible to treat many more terms. The divided page was hailed as a stroke of genius. It would last through Webster’s Second but not through Webster’s Third. ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[William Torrey Harris, ed]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 93 ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[G. &amp; C. Merriam Co.]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1909]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Springfield]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Photo of William Torrey Harris]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 93 ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Ca. 1905]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The “Laugh-In” Button]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[The son of Ohio farmers, Isaac Kauffman Funk became a Lutheran pastor and an entrepreneurial religious publisher. With lawyer Adam Wagnalls, he founded the Funk &amp; Wagnalls Company, which produced A Standard Dictionary of the English Language. A staff of hundreds labored for more than three years to produce more than 2,300 triple-column pages of small print. Funk’s initial cost was $1.1 million (more than $36 million today). Frank Vizetelly, a talented lexicographer-colleague, wrote of Funk’s “indefatigable energy and practical scholarship.” ]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 91 ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[Ca. 1969]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[A Standard Dictionary of the English Language. 2 vols]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Isaac Kauffman Funk, ed]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:source><![CDATA[Ex coll. Karolyne &amp; Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 91 ]]></dcterms:source>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Funk &amp; Wagnalls]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[1894–1895]]></dcterms:date>
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    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[London &amp; Toronto]]></dcterms:coverage>
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