TIME coinages?; Wuss (1977)

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_TIME_ COINAGES?
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 #3979 (24 Jan 2000 05:37) - Coinages (part  four)(LONG!)
Time coined the word "newsmagazine," along with many  other words that entered
the language--socialite, guesstimate, televangelist--and many words that  did
not, including cinemactor and nudancer and sexational. (RHHDAS  has
guesstimate from 1934, but with no  Time citation--ed.)
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NEWSMAGAZINE
Miscellany
_(During  the Past Week the Daily Press..._
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,727690,00.html)
Dec. 24, 1923
(During the Past  Week the Daily Press Gave Extensive Publicity to the
Following Men and Women.  Let Each Explain to You Why His Name Appeared in the
Headlines.) Mrs. Leonard  Wood: "The New York Evening Journal, self-styled
'America's Greatest Evening  Newspaper,' ignorantly announced that I had been
appointed a Vice Chairman of  the Republican National ...
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(OED)
1890  Science 3 Jan. 11 The first  number of a weekly *news magazine. 1953
Encounter Nov. 5/1 He shifted to  the weekly news-magazine, Der Spiegel. 1992
Economist 31 Oct. 51/1 Old News  is the output of the broadsheet newspapers, the
news magazines and the  television networks' news shows.
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GUESSTIMATE
No early citation in TIME. See ADS-L archives.
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SOCIALITE (OED has this citation)
_Engaged.  Almira G. Rockefeller, only..._
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,928438,00.html)
Dec. 31, 1928
Engaged. Almira G.  Rockefeller, only daughter of the late William G.
Rockefeller, grandniece of  John Davison Rockefeller, recent debutante, of Manhattan
& Greenwich, Conn.;  to M. Roy Jackson, able huntsman, widower, father of two
married daughters, of  Rye, N. Y. Engaged. Melville E. Stone II, grandson of .
Associated Press General  Manager Melville E. Stone, ...
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TELEVANGELIST (OED has 5 March 1973 from TIME, but only this shows  up?)
Religion
_Retailing  Optimism_
(http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,917133,00.html)
Feb. 24, 1975
The cameras are in place. So is the  Pan-Cake makeup. Cue the lights. Ready
on the fountains. Action. "This is the  day God has made," beams the Rev.
Robert Schuller as he bounds toward the  pulpit. A glass panel separating the
walk-in sanctuary from the drive-in  sanctuary lumbers open. As a dozen fountains
spurt skyward, ..
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WUSS
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We have 1976, so I don't know if 1977 helps. THE ITHACAN, from Ithaca
College, supposedly is digitized from January 1931, but a check of the word  "slang"
shows an entry in January 1927.
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24 February 1977, THE ITHACAN, pg. 13, col. 1:
A group of athletically-inclined might polish off a half in thirty minutes,
while a wuss convention will take all night to dent a  quarter..



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