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Noun

1. edward wyllis scripps, scripps

United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)

2. james edmund scripps, scripps

United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

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ˈEdward Wyllis (ˈwɪlɪs ) ; wilˈis) 1854-1926; U.S. newspaper publisher

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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Family of American newspaper publishers, including James Edmund (1835-1906), who founded the Detroit Evening News (1873), and his half-brother Edward Wyllis (1854-1926), who established (1907) the news agency that became United Press International and organized the syndication of features and illustrations. James's sister Ellen Browning (1836-1932) endowed several prominent educational and research institutions in southern California.

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