Crossword-Solution: DEWEY 5 letters, 120 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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"Malcom In The Middle" brother 1 answer
"The School and Society" author 1 answer
"Winner" in a 1948 headline 1 answer
"Winner" in a famous 1948 headline 1 answer
"Winner" in an infamous headline 1 answer
"___ Defeats Truman" 1 answer
"___ Defeats Truman" (11/3/48 Chicago Daily Tribune headline) 1 answer
"___ Defeats Truman" (big oops headline of 1948) 1 answer
"___ Defeats Truman" (famous 1948 headline) 1 answer
"___ Defeats Truman" (famously inaccurate 1948 headline) 1 answer
"___ Defeats Truman" (infamous 1948 headline) 1 answer
"___ Defeats Truman" (infamous headline) 1 answer
1944 loser to FDR 1 answer
1948 also-ran 1 answer
1948 loser 1 answer
1948 presidential candidate wrongly proclaimed the winner 1 answer
1948 runner-up 1 answer
Adviser to the new Administration. 1 answer
Albany V. I. P. 1 answer
Almost-President 1 answer
American library pioneer. 1 answer
Animated duckling with a blue cap 1 answer
Battle of Manila Bay leader 1 answer
Big name in library science 1 answer
Brother of Huey and Louie 1 answer
Campaigner of 1948. 1 answer
Candidate who lost to Truman 1 answer
Creator of a decimal system 1 answer
Creator of the decimal system for libraries. 1 answer
DEVISER 1 answer
Decimal preceder? 1 answer
Decimal system deviser 1 answer
Decimal system name 1 answer
Decimal-system man 1 answer
Famed librarian 1 answer
Famous U.S. librarian. 1 answer
Famous librarian. 1 answer
Famous runner-up Thomas 1 answer
Famous son of Owosso, Mich. 1 answer
Father of Library Science. 1 answer
He backs Ike for '52. 1 answer
He didn't defeat Truman, despite a 1948 headline 1 answer
He'll run for third term in November. 1 answer
Head man in New York. 1 answer
Head of a delegation in Chicago. 1 answer
Hero at Manila Bay. 1 answer
Huey, ___ and Louie 1 answer
Inventor of a library classification system 1 answer
Librarian Melvil 1 answer
Library classification innovator 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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When Corey and the book-keeper re-entered the office, Miss Dewey had finished her lunch, and was putting a sheet of paper into her type-writer.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
Dewey details a description of a girl of six who was carried around the upright shaft of a flour mill in which her clothes became entangled.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
And--say, if Dewey isn't busy, better have him come along on the fastest one of the fleet.' "'Now, see here, O'Keefe,' says the consul, getting the best of a hiccup, 'what do you want to bother the State Department about this matter for?' "'Didn't you hear me?' says I; 'I'm to be shot in two weeks.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1997
Gee! What was the use of Dewey's taking Manila, if I've got to smoke Vermont cigars? (REDDY enters, carrying tray with food and a bottle.) REDDY: Say, fellers, look at this layout.
Miss Civilization Richard Harding Davis 1999
The next year, 3,500,562 acres belonging to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians were taken to increase several of the older counties, and to from the new ones of honest old American names--Blame, Custer, Washita, Dewey, Roger Mills, Beckham and Ellis.
Lahoma John Breckinridge Ellis 2000

Quotes with DEWEY (3)

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!
Jonah Goldberg The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second. He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat." I said, "You don't need to. I can see it in his eyes." Dewey was gone.
Vicki Myron Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
Nick Hornby The Polysyllabic Spree
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 133 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).