Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most significant aspect of this move to broaden selection from the ranks of university graduates is the change in service examinations from highly specific quizzes to general tests. Thus the government will follow the brilliant example of the English system in requiring of candidates some evidence of broad intellectual attainment instead of technical knowledge. While this method of examination may be an effective bar against the entrance of mediocrities in the service, its use in England proves that it can be undemocratic in excluding the less educated classes. However, the easier accessibility to a college education in this country than...
...eyed and frail, but still erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like an aging lion's when Poland is mentioned...
...rooms in that ungainly, unfinished and unfilled neoclassic edifice sufficed to hold examples of almost all of Blake's work. No foreign loans were on hand because, alone among English artists of the first rank, Blake could be represented completely by loans from U. S. collections. Philadelphians were gracefully assured of Blake's greatness in a catalogue introduction by Book-bibber A. (for Alfred) Edward Newton...
...fifth of their time learning to understand teaching and children. Most radical advance: tests to weed out unfit teachers at intervals, before they graduate. Students will be required not only to pass their courses but also to give evidence of mental fitness, emotional stability, poise, ability to use the English language properly...
...musical career of the famous English actress, who has been in this country since 1922, did not end with this failure, however, Later, inspired by a group of musicians with whom she starred on a radio program, she learned to play the ocarina, the colloquial "sweet potato...