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4. Woman who is fat, clumsy, and lacks cleanliness; 1900-1930s [174] 5. Cheap room in hotel or bed; 1910s [174] 6. Abrupt change in political policy [174] 7. Seat [175] 8. Hit; knock down; 1910s [174] flophouse. Main article: Flophouse. 1. Cheap transient hotel used by people down on their luck [176] flour lover
Words coined from the years 1901 to 2000. Most words will be classed by their respective decade they were coined in; this category is only to be used directly on an article if the decade the neologism was coined is uncertain.
Universal Cyclopaedia (1900) - a reissue of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia (1876) Universal Reference Library (1900) a reissue of Universal Cyclopaedia and Dictionary edited by Charles Morris (1898) Twentieth Century Encyclopedia (1901) Imperial Reference Library (1901) Current Cyclopedia of Reference (1909)
A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles is a dictionary of English words and phrases that originated in the United States. The two-volume dictionary was edited by Mitford M. Mathews and was published in 1951 by University of Chicago Press. [1]
The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...
Information history is an emerging discipline related to, but broader than, library history.An important introduction and review was made by Alistair Black (2006). [15] A prolific scholar in this field is also Toni Weller, for example, Weller (2007, 2008, 2010a and 2010b).
A stereotype mold ("flong") being made Stereotype casting room of the Seattle Daily Times, c. 1900. In printing, a stereotype, [note 1] stereoplate or simply a stereo, is a solid plate of type metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould taken from the surface of a forme of type.