A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used ins...tead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[T]he asphaltum contains an exactly requisite amount of sulphides for production of rubber tires. This brown material also contain...s "ichthyol," a medicinal preparation used externally, in Webster's clarifying phrase, "as an alterant and discutient."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before he has learned his a b c in the beautiful but mystic lore of the wilderness which Spenser and Dante had just begun to read,... he cuts it down, coins a pine-tree shilling (as if to signify the pine's value to him), puts up a deestrict schoolhouse, and introduces Webster's spelling book.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Webster's Fugitive-Slave Bill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »