Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young man's fancy may have its way in Spring, but in February it has a bad time--if the young man is a Freshman and he's taking English A. Although he is allowed to select a new section man for English Ab, he has no way of choosing the material to be covered. Each section concentrates on a specific phase of literature, but the range is extreme and the sections many; and the student has no way of knowing in advance whether his fate in Shakespeare or Euripides. Whatever his fancy may be, he must take what...
Belabouring the English language with characteristic unconcern for accuracy, the Yale petition slyly referred to their nefarious weekend as "time-honored." Miss Blanding was undeceived. The Vassar girls will stay...
Dana remarked that the Russians recognized that English art and drama was part of the heritage the Red Army fought to preserve in the last war. "On the eve of the German invasion in 1941," he said, the main attraction in Moscow was "Midsummer Night's Dream...
Richard D. Ellmann, along with John Ciardi, will become Briggs-Copeland assistant professor of English and Jarvis Kingston will be an assistant professor of Military Science and Tactics for Air, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
...plans, vaguely, to fly around the world, lecturing on India. But, back home, the native princes, who might be interested in financing him if he were a tout for dancing girls, turn him down: it would be less expensive to found a chair of Indian music at an English university...