Merriam

[mer-ee-uhm]

noun

1. a town in E Kansas.

Example Sentences

In 2014, Mr. Fatsis walked for the first time into what resembled a “drab elementary school” in Springfield, Mass. This was the headquarters of Merriam-Webster, which traces its origins to 1831, when the brothers George and Charles Merriam set up shop as printers of textbooks and religious texts, encouraging employees to adopt a “habitual suavity of manners,” which was presumably a challenge in the rough-and-tumble world of Bibles and hymnals.

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He came out of political retirement in 1934 in part because the long-running GOP domination of California politics looked to have run out its string — the colorless Republican governor, Frank Merriam, was detested for upholding a sales tax that overburdened the middle class and vetoing an income tax, thereby leaving the upper classes in full possession of their wealth.

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Merriam was reelected with a 49% plurality.

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But he took solace in the fact that Merriam actually implemented some of his proposals, including replacing the sales tax with an income tax.

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“It’s critically important for the people to understand just how much power Congress has given the president through these statutes,” said Eric Merriam, a professor of legal studies at Central Florida University and an appellate military judge.

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