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1. Authors

   Authors or, The Game of Authors is a card game for three to five players. The first Game of Authors was published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem, Massachusetts in 1861, and later published by Parker Brothers in 1897. The deck of cards consists of eleven sets of four cards each representing the works of eleven famous authors. The object of the game is to form complete sets of the four cards comprising the works of a particular author. The winner is the player with the most sets. The game is the creation of Anne Abbott, a Beverly, Massachusetts clergyman's daughter and editor of a young people's literary journal. Abbott also designed the hugely popular mid-19th century card game, Dr. Busby. Later decks included additional authors, but the authors represented in the original deck were: ⁕Louisa May Alcott ⁕James Fenimore Cooper ⁕Charles Dickens ⁕Nathaniel Hawthorne ⁕Washington Irving ⁕Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⁕Sir Walter Scott ⁕William Shakespeare ⁕Robert Louis Stevenson ⁕Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⁕Mark Twain

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   Rank popularity for the word 'authors' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3703

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1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of authors in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of authors in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of authors in a Sentence

1. Jana Schaich Borg:

   The six general routes of disease transmission the authors describe will help researchers make more precise hypotheses in the future.

2. Liz Klein:

   If you look at some of the authors' conclusions, this is very compelling evidence of the effects of any policy that affects secondhand smoke exposure.

3. Paula Cannon:

   I applaud the authors for at least, you know, doing what they could with the available data and providing some very provocative hypotheses, the good news is theyre very testable.

4. Simon Schuster:

   Carolyn Reidy was equally attentive, on a personal level, to our authors, to whom Carolyn Reidy sent handwritten notes when they received awards, made the bestseller list, or simply to let them know when Carolyn Reidy finished reading Avon Books.

5. Florence Brown:

   But when we see an association between maternal higher (blood sugar) in pregnancy and worse offspring academic achievement we cannot say that there is cause and effect, while the authors try to adjust for the effect of parental education on child educational performance, there may be other factors that influence offspring academic achievement.

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