March 2007

Looking Back: 1950

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover began the Ten Most Wanted program on March 14, 1950. Since then, more than 400 fugitives appearing on the list have been captured. Nineteen fifty was also the year in which 275 terms in the Collegiate Dictionary made their first known appearance in print. We captured ten of those terms we wouldn't want to be without, then another ten that we could easily do without.

Interested in all 275 words? Select the Collegiate as your reference source and click on Advanced Search. Type 1950 into the Date field, and click Search.