Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teachers. The student body is made up of 51 Americans and 245 nationals from 27 other countries. They are the children of businessmen, diplomats, and refugees who have found a home in Iran. In order to enroll they have to pay tuition and have an adequate command of the English language...
...still spouting steam because I'm a painter." In Evanston, Gertrude O'Brady would be remembered as a blonde girl named McBrady (she modified her name to make it easier for the French to pronounce). Now, at 43, she sometimes fumbles English words, her braids are red instead of blonde, and she has made art-loving Paris take her work and like...
This week the International Missionary Council, biggest organization in the Protestant and orthodox missions field, proudly announced some cheerful statistics. The number of practicing Protestants in missionary areas (120 countries and island groups outside the English-speaking countries and Europe) has risen from 6,517,697, when the council first officially counted the flock in 1925, to 25,341,283 in 1948, an impressive increase...
...years, French horses had crossed the Channel to win the race dearest to English hearts: the Epsom Derby. Last week, the French came within a whisker of winning again. It took Nimbus, a game chestnut bred by a bookmaker and owned by the wife of a British barrister, to outlast French-owned Amour Drake in the 170th and richest of all English Derbies (the winner's bundle...
Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, taking a hard look at his stricken countrymen, said: "His success . . . is almost entirely based on his personal appeal. To the English he is exotic, and since he is a foreigner who won't be around tomorrow, they let themselves be swept along by his personality. His appeal is emotional, and his openness and lack of shame are most welcome. He makes love to his audience...