71 ;;Quote: Murray's Scriptorium was a simple shed lined with a 1000 pigeon holes and later converted to shelves

173 ;;Quote: Murray started with 2.5 million quotation slips from Furnivall and added another million from the British Commonwealth and America

179 ;;Quote: Murray's children sorted quotation slips--half a sheet of notepaper with a catchword in the top left corner

180 ;;Quote: Murray initially organized and instructed the readers; wrote 30-40 letters a day, e.g., 4 page answer to query

186 ;;Quote: description of turning quotation slips into dictionary entries: sort, subdivide into senses, define and arrange chronologically

187 ;;Quote: the goal of the Oxford English Dictionary is to trace the life history of every word over the last 700 years

203 ;;Quote: Murray and sub-editors spread out all the senses of a word to determine the word's logical chain of development

204 ;;Quote: Murray faced severe problems with space and meeting schedules: some words took most of a day, 'do' took half a year, died in 1915 with 'Turndown' completed