semanticist
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"It beats jogging," insists Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, the tam-o'-shantered semanticist and college president turned junior Senator from California.
From Time Magazine Archive
A semanticist with an excellent reputation among academics, Hayakawa was approaching retirement age in 1968 when he was made acting president of San Francisco State College.
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Hayakawa, a semanticist before he became California's U.S.
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For a summer conference on general semantics at St. Louis, Hayakawa organized his antipathy to pop lyrics into a thesis based on what a fellow semanticist has labeled "the IFD disease."
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And even a skilled semanticist had trouble in making anything called a Fuzzy sound menacing.
From Little Fuzzy by Piper, H. Beam
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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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.
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