Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MARYLAND: Harvard Club of Annapolis: Ellery H. Clark, Jr. (Commander) '33, Department of English, History and Government, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis...
...forced labor, kept in concentration camps, dressed in the torn garments taken from the bodies of other prisoners. Friends of her family brought her to Boston a year ago. Now she works for the National Council of Jewish Women, waits on table in a Cambridge restaurant, assiduously studies English. She says: "The most important thing here is freedom...
...eleven he grew up at the court of the Turkish tyrant Abdul Hamid in Constantinople, where he was, like other children of notables, a hostage for the good behavior of his father. There the boy Abdullah learned languages .(besides Arabic of Koranic purity, he speaks Turkish, understands French and English), military science and diplomacy. He developed a taste for Arabic poetry, skill in chess, a gourmet's taste in food...
...soon (though WPIX and Chicago's WGN have arranged to televise some less ancient English pictures). One stumbling block is Hollywood's fear that television will kill its theater market; another is that release rights of recent films are wrapped up in expensive red tape. More important is the fact that television's purse is no match for its appetite. The top price tag for a radio program (around $25,000 a week) would not pay for two, minutes of a big Hollywood movie, and the entertainment budget of the entire television industry is not as much...
...Speak English. Born in Wisconsin (1857), of Norwegian farm parents, Veblen was fluent in Norwegian, German, Greek and Latin when he entered college -but knew scarcely any English. Learning it from academic texts, he emerged with a prose which today seems like a humorous man's academic parody of academic writing...