Word: english
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cervantes died on April 23, 1616, the same day as William Shakespeare" [TIME, Oct. 3], Not quite so. The same date, but not the same day. The English bard died on April 23 Old Style, or May 3 New Style, the system of reckoning already adopted in Spain...
...Dunster House dining room underwent a 30-second blackout punctuated with cheers during supper last night in a birthday celebration for John M. Major, tutor in English. In the middle of the blackout a large cake appeared, lit by an undetermined number of candles...
...boat in an attempt to sell us fruit of round cheeses which you ate by carving out from the inside like a jack's lantern. When we washed our dishes in the canals watered with Rhine sewage bright-eyed kiddies and incredulous adults gathered. Little boys who could speak English always appeared at crucial moments to direct us to grocery stores or lead us to inns where we could buy an eel dinner...
Remarkably many of the people did speak English. Unfortunately grocery stores were the only places where no one could understand us. Generally comprehension increased if you asked for "viskey" instead of "whiskey," but shopping remained a difficulty. We once solved the problem by inducing a black marketer who wanted to change a few guilders to help us buy the routine quota of Maggi soup, meat, and bisquets before entering monetary negotiations...
...January session is being arranged on International Economic Planning directed by an American economist assisted by two of the leading economies students at last summer's Seminar--English and Danish. A conference on American education has been tentatively scheduled for February...