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INTRODUCTION It is just a hundred years since Roget's Thesaunis of English Words and Phrases was first published. In the course of that century of unprecedented development and change our language and vocabulary have undergone modiiications and additions which have been dealt with from time to...

It is just a hundred years since Roget's Thesaurus of English Wovds and Phrases was first published. In the course of that century of unprecedented development and change our language and vocabulary have undergone modifications and additions which have been dealt with from time to time in previous...

It is just a hundred years since Roget's Thesaurus of English Wovds and Phrases was first published. In the course of that century of unprecedented development and change our language and vocabulary have undergone modifications and additions which have been dealt with from time to time in previous...

EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION (1967) 1. Tms Dictionary, first published in 1917, retains in the present thirteenth edition the essential form developed by Daniel Jones over the last fifty years. However, 468 completely new words have been added in this edition, and 17 words, which...

INTRODUCTION Nowhere, with the possible exception of France and Russia, has the art of the short story flourished more abundantly than in the United States. Qualitatively and quantitatively, the shorter forms of fiction have, during the nineteenth century, shown such exuberant development that...