Thurber

[ thur-ber ]

noun

1. James (Gro·ver) [groh, -ver], 1894–1961, U.S. writer, caricaturist, and illustrator.

Thurber

/ ˈθɜːbə /

noun

1. ThurberJames (Grover)18941961MUSWRITING: humorous writerARTS AND CRAFTS: illustrator James ( Grover ). 1894–1961, US humorist and illustrator. He contributed drawings and stories to the New Yorker and his books include Is Sex Necessary? (1929), written with E. B. White

Example Sentences

“Look, if you told me that he had been a welcomed member of the Algonquin Round Table, and he was there with James Thurber, I’d get that,” Alan Zweibel, an original “S.N.L.” writer who worked with Mr. McConnachie, said in a phone interview.

From New York Times

"It is vital to understand how quickly reefs can adapt to ever more frequent, repeated disturbances such as marine heat waves," said Vompe, a doctoral student who works in the lab of microbiology professor Rebecca Vega Thurber.

From Science Daily

"Members of coral microbial communities have unique biological features that make them more adaptable and responsive to environmental change -- short generation cycles, large population sizes and diverse metabolic potential," Vega Thurber said.

From Science Daily

Sharpton is an associate professor of microbiology and statistics; Epstein was a postdoctoral researcher during the study and is now a lecturer at the University of Essex; Schmeltzer, a doctoral student in Vega Thurber's lab, has graduated and is working as a biologist with the U.S.

From Science Daily

Vompe, Vega Thurber and colleagues at OSU, the University of California, Santa Barbara, Arizona State University, and the University of Essex spent five years studying 200 coral colonies at a reef on the north shore of Mo'orea, French Polynesia.

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