... William B. Fowle , who at this point had invested about $ 250,000 ( mostly unrecoverable ) in the enterprise , was elected president , and George H. Bourne was elected secretary and treasurer . After a quantity of these Lincoln and Bentley ...

... Bentley grades . ( In author's collection . ) Unfortunately Mr. Fowle had suffered so much loss through the watch ... William A. Wales assigned to the Auburndale Watch Co. patent 276101 , of December 4 , 1883 , covering details of ...

In this timely collection, the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and deals with diverse languages and their variants.