semanticist
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The Senate The political novices included a 70-year-old semanticist in California, a former astronaut in New Mexico, a rancher in Wyoming and a tax lawyer in Utah.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew he was listening when they asked me if I needed to meet occasionally with the California semanticist to get his advice on African affairs.
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"It beats jogging," insists Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, the tam-o'-shantered semanticist and college president turned junior Senator from California.
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Hayakawa, a formidable semanticist who led the crusade, promised it was not meant to homogenize Californian life.
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With the reactions of a trained semanticist he relaxed instead of tensing up with fear.
From The Deadly Daughters by Novick, Irving
A portion of what Farb says has been said by the old semanticists and, in fact, by such commentators on the vagary of words as Lewis Carroll.
From Time Magazine Archive
The men around the table sounded more like semanticists than diplomats, exploring the precise meaning of such terms, widely used by the Russians on Berlin, as "access." "free city" and "guarantees."
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Slidell, La. Sir: No doubt there will be a spate of discussion by semanticists as well as theologians about the morning-after pill.
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