Usually means: Inventor of the Dewey Decimal system.
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▸ noun:  Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an influential American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, a founder of the Lake Placid Club, and a chief librarian at Columbia University.


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anti-Dewey, Dewey's opposite, Dewey's antagonist

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anti-Dewey, Dewey's opposite, Dewey's antagonist




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