Word: counte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
...over the U.S. had answered her discreet little notes asking for help, placed in classical journals. A professor at Tulane University had made her a list of 8,000 Latin words which closely resemble the English. A teacher at Pennsylvania's Ursinus College had made a frequency count of Vergil's vocabulary. The chairman of the State University of Iowa's classics department, one of her associates, had made a frequency count of syntax forms. Miss Geweke had begun to write the lessons that would best prepare pupils for Vergil. She had hoped...
...dawned cold and rainy. Mathias won his heat of the 110-meter hurdles, rested a while under a blanket on the wet ground, and then got up to make a mighty discus heave. But for a while no one knew just how far it was, or whether it would count, because someone had accidentally knocked over the marker showing where the discus fell. For about two hours, raincoated officials plodded around the soggy field looking for the marker. They found it at last, and measured out the longest toss...
...think so"). But he does "bear in mind" that in Philadelphia he will be close to Washington and New York. He also warned the trustees that he would not give up his "vigorous interest in public questions." Beyond such distractions, the University of Pennsylvania could count on having an able and popular administrator as president-for at least four years, or until he got an offer he liked better...
With the prospect that this attentive audience would soon reach major proportions, advertisers who have been hanging back have hastily changed their minds. The monthly Television reported that the number of TV sponsors at latest count was 374, up nearly 60% in a year. By fall, Young & Rubicam expects to be handling more television than radio shows in New York City. In urging its own clients to buy television time, Lennen & Mitchell warned: "It is quickly becoming a case of jump in or be left...