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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
Provisional charter was granted by the New York State Board of Regents to New York Institute of Technology in 1955. [2] The founders of New York Institute of Technology, and in particular Dr. Alexander Schure, Ph.D., [3] started the current university as a career-oriented school that offered engineering-related training and applications-oriented research opportunities. [4]
EDITS (4A: Tweaks a crossword clue, say) I'm a fan of a self-referential clue. AUDRA (15A: McDonald set to play Mama Rose in fall 2024) ...
Clues and answers must always match in part of speech, tense, aspect, number, and degree. A plural clue always indicates a plural answer and a clue in the past tense always has an answer in the past tense. A clue containing a comparative or superlative always has an answer in the same degree (e.g., [Most difficult] for TOUGHEST). [6]
In 1974, the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab was established and attracted the likes of: Pixar Animation Studios president Edwin Catmull and co-founder Alvy Ray Smith; Walt Disney Feature Animation Chief Scientist Lance Williams; DreamWorks animator Hank Grebe; and Netscape and Silicon Graphics founder James H. Clark. [29]
Will Shortz, the longtime crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times and NPR’s “puzzlemaster” for more than three decades, had a stroke last month and has spent the last several weeks in ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Matthew Schure (May 26, 1948 - February 1, 2023) was an American educational psychologist, professor, and college president. Schure served as the second president of New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) from 1982 until 2000, [1] succeeding his father, Alexander Schure, NYIT's founder. [2]