“DDD.” Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language.
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Nandipati received a $30,000 cash prize, an engraved trophy from the E. W. Scripps Company, a $2,500 savings bond from Merriam-Webster, a $5,000 scholarship from the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation, $2,600 in reference works from Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., and an online language course and Barnes & Noble Nook from Middlebury Interactive Languages.
Although some media called Webster's killing the first gay-related murder in Canadian history, much like the Matthew Shepard incident in the United States it was merely the first to attract widespread media attention.
On 30 January 2008, Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Heart of Midlothian Football Club were to be awarded £150,000 for Webster's breach of contract.
Webster was not the first English Renaissance playwright to dramatize the story of Appius Claudius Crassus and Verginia; another play with the same title and subject matter had been published in 1576, as the work of "R. B.," probably a Richard Bower.
Webster also helped launch the news department of NBC affiliate WGBA-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1996 as the station's first anchor and news director, and also anchored at CBS affiliate KSWT-TV in Yuma, Arizona.
Byron Cockrell was born on July 3, 1935 to Webster and Willa Cockrell of Lineville, Alabama.
In both of her regular television roles, she worked with Eugene Roche, who had the recurring role of Attorney E. Ronald Mallu during the latter three seasons of Soap before playing her on-screen husband, Bill Parker, on Webster.
Commerce Insurance was founded in 1972 as small insurance company in the south-central Massachusetts town of Webster where the company is still located and headquartered.
She married actor and frequent co-star Webster Campbell from 1920 to 1923, producer Walter Morosco from 1924 to 1934, and the owner of the Washington Redskins football team George Preston Marshall from 1936 to 1958.
Graham Webster in The Cornovii (1991), about the Midlands tribe, cites Anne Ross's hypothesis and points out that it is interesting that the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance has survived from pagan ritual – Abbot's Bromley being only 55 km away from the tribal centre of Viroconium.
A new British administration, friendlier to the United States than the previous one, sent Lord Ashburton to Washington to negotiate directly with Webster, and Everett's role was reduced to acquiring documents from British records, and pressing the American case to the Foreign Office.
Born near Churchville, Maryland, Webster received a classical training, and attended the Churchville Academy and later the New London Academy of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The first president of FAM was Sir Andrew Caldecott, followed by M.B. Shelley, Dr. J.S. Webster, S.D. Scott, R. Williamson and Adrian Clark, who served up until 1940 – before Europe went on a full-scale war with Germany .
Roemer, however, was not supporting McCrery, but instead the Democrat Stanley R. Tiner, the former editor of the since defunct Shreveport Journal, a native of Webster Parish, and United States Marine veteran of the Vietnam War.
Sonny Rollins's 1956 album Saxophone Colossus has a song titled "Strode Rode", which is a reference to the hotel where Freddie Webster died.
After the death of Noah Webster, the lexicographer, the Merriams purchased the right of future publication of Webster's Dictionary.
Webster's research included study of the diverse family Euphorbiaceae (spurges), on which he produced a large number of papers, and he lectured on plant systematics, biogeography, and the ecology of pollination.
Hugh Webster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE on 2 May 1887 proposed by Sir John Murray, William Evans Hoyle, Robert Gray, Alexander Buchan.
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The son of Rev David Webster and Isabella McKinnon, Hugh Webster was born in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and educated first privately by his father and later at Edinburgh University (1878–80).
Born as Janet Patricia Webster in Liverpool, she was most famous for her appearances on BBC television's The Morecambe & Wise Show where was, anonymously, "the lady who comes on at the end".
During his tenure, expansion has been evident such as the Recording Academy’s decision (2010) to add the Americana Category to its list of Grammy Awards and in 2011, Merriam-Webster to added the word, Americana, as a musical term, to its prestigious Collegiate Dictionary.
Kenyon had also earlier published American Pronunciation (1924) and served as the consulting editor of pronunciation to the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary in his career as a pioneering expert on the study of American English, which earned him the epithet "the dean of American phoneticians".
The song "My White Devil" from Echo & the Bunnymen's 1983 album Porcupine refers to Webster as "one of the best there was" and mentions his two tragic plays by name.
Jonathan Wade-Drahos is an American film and television actor who is most famous for his lead role as John Webster in Dirk Shafer's 2001 film Circuit.
On the eve of the first day's fighting at Shiloh, Webster was instrumental in massing the artillery in support of Grant's last line of defense near Pittsburg Landing.
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 3rd round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft out of Louisburg College, Rupe was acquired by the Texas Rangers along with Frank Francisco and minor leaguer Anthony Webster to complete an earlier trade for Carl Everett in July 2003.
Webster is a graduate from West Virginia University and is an active member of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority.
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer and editor for the Merriam-Webster family of dictionaries.
He won the Guyanese national chess championship in 2007, beating players such as Ronuel Greenidge and Learie Webster in the 18-round tournament with a total of 15 points.
In 1843, after Noah Webster's death, George and Charles Merriam secured publishing and revision rights to the 1840 edition of the dictionary.
Michael Don's restaurants are often visited by well-known public persons: movie stars, politics, sportsmen: Presidents of Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk and Viktor Yuschenko), President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, French nutritionist Pierre Dukan, Stephen Webster – famous jeweler, etc.
March 3, 2007, Casals Festival, San Juan, Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, San Juan Philharmonic Chorale; Andreas Delfs, conductor; Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Nathaniel Webster, baritone.
After the murder, Webster posed as Thomas for two weeks, but was exposed and fled back to Ireland and her uncle's home at Killanne near Enniscorthy, County Wexford.
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Elliott O'Donnell, writing in his introduction to the trial transcript, described Webster as "not merely savage, savage and shocking... but the grimmest of grim personalities, a character so uniquely sinister and barbaric as to be hardly human".
In addition he has contributed definitions and other material to dictionaries and other language reference works issued by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Longman, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Chambers Harrap, Langenscheidt, Berlitz, Scholastic Corporation, and Merriam-Webster, among others.
According to the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, a clay pug mill typically consists of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay body is placed.
By the time of Holekamp’s death, Holekamp Lumber operated six lumberyards (St. Louis, Maplewood, Affton, Webster Groves, Kirkwood, and Gray Summit), and the company would remain in business until the mid-1980s.
He has directed episodes for a number notable television series including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, Amen, What I Like About You, The Drew Carey Show, Webster, The Suite Life on Deck, Sonny with a Chance, I'm in the Band, Good Luck Charlie, Austin & Ally and among other series.
She moved to Webster, New York at a young age, returned to California to live several times, returning to Webster in 2004.
The attribution can be found in the Webster's Dictionary (the American Dictionary of the English Language, published by Noah Webster in 1828).
E H Webster, a prominent member of the Derwent Sailing Boat Club (later to become the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania (RYCT)), was looking for a yacht to be used as a One-Design class for the club.
The Best of Nikki Webster is the fourth album by Australian singer Nikki Webster released in Australia on 29 November 2004 (see 2004 in music) by Gotham Records.
The Webster Boy (1962) is an Irish film directed by Don Chaffey and written by Ted Allan and Leo Marks.
The Thor T/A is a Canadian ultralight aircraft that was designed by Thorsten B. Strenger (or possibly Gunter Webster) and produced by Thor-Air of Weston, Ontario.
The Swedes in Omaha used the Webster Street Station to connect with their ethnic communities in Oakland, Pender, Wakefield, and Wausa.
Doctrine and Covenants sections 130 and 131 are gathered from remarks given by Joseph Smith at Ramus.
Whilst playing Maid Marian in pantomime Turner-Webster fell in love with actor Gary Webster, who starred in Family Affairs.
A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Magazine Street to the north, Napoleon Avenue to the east, the Mississippi River to the south and Exposition, Tchoupitoulas and Webster Streets to the west.
In 1992 Webster was the Republican nominee for Governor of Missouri, after defeating Roy Blunt and Wendell Bailey in the Republican Primary.