Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that I was beginning to wonder whether the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers gathered here to celebrate the landing of their ancestors at Plymouth might not have feared that the presence of the British Ambassador tonight might bring with it some dread infection of the terrible disease known an Anglo-American friendship. It is, of course, a most dangerous malady and may lead to results almost too appalling to contemplate...
...great Anglo-Saxon communities preferred disagreement to a concession on the relatively insignificant questions of the gunpower of second-class cruisers. Surely these two nations instead of meticulously counting up every ton and every gun of each other's fleets, should rather regarded themselves as equal contibuters to a joint force whose chief duty was the maintenance of peace of the world...
Atlanta, with more than 870 national corporations with branch plants, warehouses or sales offices there, was delighted. The Industrial Bureau advertised: "Here is one location they [transplanted concerns] found abundant raw materials. The finest type of labor in the world-willing, intelligent Anglo-Saxons. Plentiful plant sites. Ample hydro-electric power. Lower building costs. Invigorating climate, permitting efficient, year-round production . . . 8 great railroad systems, with 15 main lines...
President Wiley Lin Hurie was glum. His College of the Ozarks at Clarksville, Ark., needed-money, badly. The men's dormitory must be completed . . . the men were sleeping in wooden shacks they had built themelves . . . poor sons of poor fathers mountaineers, pure-bred Anglo-Saxon stock, much inbred, but unalloyed the girl students too, stout hearted. . . scrimp and save and slave for the $250 tuition and living expenses. . . cheapest charge for a bachelor's degree in Arkansas. The dormitory must be completed; the walls are up the boys laid the foundation and did all the common labor...
...CRIMSON regrets that the point of its editorial of November 22, "Wolf! Wolf! Beowulf!", is invalidated by the fact that due to a change in examination plans candidates for Honors in English may now present themselves with or without a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon. The first plan meets the requirements of a "General" course, "directed to the study of English literature", the second, to a "Special Course", directed "primarily to the study of English language and literature...