Example sentences for: mcdavid

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  • It subsequently developed that he was too busy to take on the burdens of the chairmanship of the conference but suggested McDavid, whom I knew, as I had engaged him in the early 1960s as a consultant to the Random House Dictionary . McDavid agreed to become involved, came to New York, and brought Audrey Duckert (of Amherst, Massachusetts) into the picture as his associate.

  • McDavid's further description of the origins of the New York Academy of Sciences [NYAS] conference are a curate's egg of fact: the facts remain as recorded (I trust) in the files of the NYAS, to wit: In the mid 1960s, as a member of the NYAS (and, as far as I know, the only person associated with the conference who was a member before, during, and after it), I approached the Executive Director of the NYAS, Eunice Thomas Miner, suggesting a conference on lexicography in English.

  • In the Opening Remarks referred to, Raven McDavid did not actually give Sledd credit for suggesting the subject conference but the idea, of another one.

  • Major contributors include: Jackson Kelly; the Segal Law Firm; Bowles, Rice, McDavid, Graff & Love; Spilman, Thomas & Battle; Bordas & Bordas; DiTrapano, Barrett & DiPiero; the West Virginia State Bar; and Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler.

  • Ltd.), McDavid's casual reference to the Academy's organizational and other help, while not atypical, is a bit of a low blow.


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