Word: emphasising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"English lends itself to simplification more than other languages," Professor Richards explains, in questioning the use of a Basic French or Spanish. Mastery of Basic entails one-tenth the labor of learning English, and since foreign schools place their greatest emphasis on the English language, Professor Richards believes the place...
"Stockbreeders pay great attention to the sires of their cattle. We should attend to our fathers," said London's Dr. George De Swiet last week. He told a working women's conference that he himself took a special diet (emphasis on cod-liver oil and orange juice) before...
But as the Y.W.'s good works have multiplied, its emphasis on religious activities has waned. It now includes many a non-Christian in Asia. And in the U.S., the Y.W.'s famed Bible classes are a thing of the past.
Praising the classics for their "spiritual importance," Werner W. Jaeger, University professor, yesterday called for greater emphasis on the studies of Greek and Latin, and pointed hopefully to the increasing number of students in those courses.
The ten year period from 1930 to 1940 showed a drop in Greek and Latin students. In 1930, there were 415 taking classics courses out of 3240, while, ten years later, an enrollment of almost 4,000 showed 384 in the courses. Despite the shift in emphasis to the natural...