| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Day, Benjamin Henry |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  d |
| DATES: | 1810–1889 |
| American printer and journalist who founded the first penny newspaper, the New York Sun (1833). His son Benjamin (1838–1916) invented the Ben Day process for shading printed illustrations.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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