Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Kestenberg stated that she polished her English seeing American moving pictures, especially those of Robert Taylor...
Though your Chinese is most fluent,--if one may judge from the front page article and your editorial in the Harvard Crimson of February eight,--still I feel constrained to utter these base words in English...
...Admiralty. His part in the post-War oil scramble was less heroic. When the U. S. S. R. nationalized the Baku oil fields he began to fulminate against the Bolsheviki and later, they charged, to plot. He backed Hitler in Germany, added a German residence to his English, Dutch and Swiss homes...
That war morale among the Children of the Rising Sun may not be quite that bright is strongly hinted in a Japanese war diary, not yet published in English, called Wheat and Soldiers, written by Sergeant Ashibei Hino. In it Japanese readers got their first realistic, human picture of fighting in China-a day-to-day account of thirst, hunger, homesickness; of no heroes, but plain men fighting desperately for their lives. And between the lines was something that looked suspiciously like anti-war sentiment...
Other speakers included Thomas H. Eliot '28 regional administrator of the wage and hours act; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English, representing the Cambridge Union of University Teachers; Zechariah Chafee, of the Law School; William N. Chambers '39, representing the Student Union; and C. Fayette Taylor, professor at Tech...