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Roy Blount, Jr., a Vanderbilt alumnus and author, gave the 2008-2009 Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture Oct. 30. The talk, titled "Through is Thoroughly Throughsome, Go is Wide Open, and Wince Makes You Wince: On the Non-Arbitrariness of Words" was sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
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