Kenyon

[ ken-yuhn ]

noun

1. John Samuel, 1874–1959, U.S. phonetician and educator.

Example Sentences

In 1999, one year after Benzer’s Methuselah, Guarente and Kenyon cofounded Elixir Pharmaceuticals.

From MIT Technology Review

Kenyon predicts Africa’s worst case scenario will soon be worse than Asia’s.

From The Daily Beast

The Kenyon layer is thought to be involved in high-level representations of the odors.

From Quanta Magazine

The nerve clusters have multiple random connections to neurons in the next layer, called the Kenyon layer, which has about 2,500 neurons, each of which receives about seven inputs.

From Quanta Magazine

After combat duty in the Pacific, he put in four years at Kenyon College and a year at Yale Drama.

From The Daily Beast

Arbogast and Kenyon testified on behalf of countless others as proof that many commanders, sadly, are not doing their job.

From The Daily Beast

He was raised in Maryland, studied at Kenyon, and traveled to Egypt to teach English to children for the summer.

From The Daily Beast

Like Mustipher, Kenyon sees preparing vintage recipes as a way of exploring history.

From The Daily Beast

Take Marsala Gelee—retro gelatin shots—which Kenyon recently attempted.

From The Daily Beast

Mr. J. O'Connell, in the blandest tones, deprecated any discussion tending to division, which induced Mr. Kenyon to sit down.

From Project Gutenberg

Dear Mr. Kenyon has his brother and sister with him, to his great joy.

From Project Gutenberg

Thurlow, Kenyon, Scott, and Erskine maintained that the dissolution had put an end to the impeachment.

From Project Gutenberg

As Kenyon observes, no MS. of equal antiquity is so well supplied with accents.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Kenyon said to me one morning 'Would you like to see Miss Barrett?'

From Project Gutenberg