Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their efforts, the English are likely to win no more than four of the 15 events. Only first places count in the meet, as has been the practice since the series began in 1899. The British have won nine meets against seven for the Americans and there has been...
Dean Bundy and J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, were among seven who received honorary degrees at Commencement exercises at Oberlin College yesterday...
...music, I mean I don't think there'd be life-there would be no world.'' A Times Square pitchman selling a pen: "If my physiognomy is not too conspicuous to be comprehended, I'm gonna clarify . . . You can write Yiddish, you can write English, you can print, you can sketch with this very same...
This was no isolated phenomenon. "Cargo cults" ("cargo" is pidgin English for trade goods) have been observed repeatedly in the islands of Melanesia (including New Guinea, the Solomons and the New Hebrides). All of them share the belief that black men will acquire the white man's magic to materialize goods from overseas without doing a lick of work. British Sociologist Peter M. Worsley writes of the cargo cults in the May issue of the Scientific American, and lists and locates 72 of them...
Because he likes sea birds and dislikes Britain's tax strictures, Author T. H. White (The Once and Future King) lives on low-tax Alderney, a 3-sq.-mi. dot of an island in the English Channel. There he flaps about in baggy fisherman's corduroys, roams the beaches with a red setter named Jenny, and drives about in a mud-clotted, war-surplus Hillman. He gets along well with the islanders, but fumes at the excessive pace (30 m.p.h.) of Al-derney's three cabs. He seldom ventures from the island these days, but during...