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...also have a religious wing in this group who suspect that English-American children who are brought up in Southern Baptist churches perceive things differently and might really deserve the top spot upon the pyramid. Southern-English-American-Episcopalians regard these assertions with a great deal of amusement. But who really knows? We all will if the ethnic learning line of research is extended logically to include every possible ethnic, regional and religious stock...
...also had a facility for making friends, so Malvina Hoffman, daughter of English-born Pianist Richard Hoffman, combined both, carved herself a career as a fashionable sculptor. Rodin, Gutzon Borglum, Ivan Mestrovic were her teachers; Mrs. E. H. Harriman was a patroness; and some of her best friends were subjects: Pianist-Statesman Ignace Paderewski, Dancer Anna Pavlova, Surgeon Harvey Cushing, Paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin. In addition to portraits of the wealthy and the famous, the indefatigable Malvina accepted commissions for the monument to English-American friendship at Bush House, London; 104 life-size studies for the Races of Man series...
...years, President Lowell agreed to allow the addition of steel stands for the Oxford-Cambridge-Yale-Harvard Track Meet. This was the last large work performed on the stadium, and increased its seating capacity to something close to the present 57,426. Nobody much remembers what happened in the English-American track and field events--except that it touched off a number of nice, old ladies serving tea in the afternoon--but the seats behind the north goal posts still remain, as you probably know...
...German stunt is a series of features based on previous English-American troubles (Revolutionary...
SUPPLEMENT TO THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY-Edited by W. A. Craigie & C. T. Onions-Oxford "($40). Five years ago occurred one of those great literary events which few editors consider newsworthy: The Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857. was finished. Last month this No. i Dictionary of the English-American language was reissued in 12 volumes, with a Supplement as 13th. The Supplement was necessary because lexicographers, for all their scholarship, make mistakes and omissions, because in 76 years the English language has grown enormously. With the addition of its Supplement this greatest of all dictionaries...