Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet QSL postcards, often printed in English, are government-made and attractively illustrated with monuments, public buildings, various war medals, and propagandistic puffs for Russian greats. A popular model carries a likeness of Alexander Popov (1859-1905), hailed by the Russians as the "inventor of radio...
...homely-handsome woman with a slight stutter and great charm, married to an executive of the BBC. She and her husband, Alan Cameron, had a tall house facing London's Regent's Park. There, Novelist Bowen sat down deliberately to restudy her Irish background, her English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell's day. The second was a book of short stories. The third...
...tonight Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, Arthur T. Merrit '29, professor of Music, and Dorothy Adlow, art critic of the Christian Science monitor will deal with the Arts and letters section of the five day symposiums...
Pitrim Sorokin, professor of Sociology and director of Harvard's "anti-selfishness" research center, George de Santillana, professor of English and History at MIT and an expert on cybernetics, a system that proposes to make greater control of physical mechanisms by man possible, and Henry Aiken, professor of Philosophy will discuss the relation of the Social Sciences to values for the modern man, tomorrow...
...English a is finally going to get its much needed face-lifting. After years of trying to teach freshmen the fundamentals of writing through overcrowded sections and dull weekly themes, the College's largest and most sadly over-extended course is up for a complete and thorough revision...