The precise terminology of modern science

[Jocelyn Limpert]

Yes, there was a TV show, "Twenty Questions."

"Twenty Questions" has a Wikipedia listing.

The following quote is from it:

"As a television series, *Twenty Questions* debuted as a local show in New
York on WOR-TV <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWOR-TV> Channel 9 on November
2, 1949. Beginning on November 26, the series went nationwide on
NBC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC>until December 24, after which it
remained dormant until March 17, 1950
when it was picked up by
ABC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company>until
June 29, 1951.
"Its longest and most well-known run, however, is the one on the DuMont
Television Network
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network>from July 6,
1951 to May 30, 1954. During this time, original host Bill
Slater <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Slater_%28broadcaster%29> was
replaced by Jay Jackson. After this run ended, ABC picked up the series
once again from July 6, 1954 to May 3, 1955. The last radio show had been
broadcast on March 27, 1954."

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Feb 16, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Jocelyn Limpert wrote:
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> > Actually the phrase was "BIGGER than
> > a breadbox" and it was coined by Steve Allen when he served as a panelist
> > on "What's My Line?" in the 1950's.
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> I remember that also being a useful (or at least much-used) clue in Twenty
> Questions ("Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?"), a game that did not have its
> own TV show but was frequently played during long car rides.
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> LH
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> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> >> From an illustration titled "Fireball" attached to the NYTimes
> >> article on the Chelyabinsk meteor:
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> >> "An _asteroid_ is a rock large than a boulder orbiting in the inner
> >> solar system, usually between Mars and Jupiter."
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> >> In the good old days, it used to be "larger than a breadbox."
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> >> Joel
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