Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both men were born talkers and they got along famously. Frankfurter had been born in Vienna to a family of rabbis, learned to speak English (with an occasional thickened s) after he was brought to the U. S. at the age of twelve. From a job delivering chemicals at $4 a week he worked his way through New York's City College into the Harvard Law School, which graduated him with highest honors in 1906. After a spell of moneymaking in the Stimson office and three years in Washington as law officer of the Bureau of Insular Affairs...
...Otto Strasser, whose brother Gregor fought Hitler for control of the Nazi Party before being shot in the "Roehm Purge" in 1934, has completed plans to establish a floating radio station aboard a ship which will soon push out from its English base and cruise in the North Sea, whence it will send anti-Nazi propaganda into Germany...
...their man has the best backhand in the world, that he had won every match he wanted to win since Fred Perry beat him at Forest Hills in 1936, that he is the only tennist in history to win in one year all four major amateur championships: Australian, French, English, U. S. Like urchins arguing on a street corner, the Vinesmen usually ended the rally by jeering that Budge was at the top because he had never met any real opposition...
...reading it substituted another name, such as Adonai. There are no vowel characters in Hebrew, and scholars guessed that, with the missing vowels supplied. JHVH should be written "Jehovah," pronounced "Yah-weh." This belief was followed in the 1901 American Standard Bible- U. S. edition of the English Revised Version of the King James Bible. Today, scholars have their doubts about the authenticity of the word "Jehovah." Last week, Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther Allan Weigle announced that "Lord" would be substituted for "Jehovah" throughout the Standard Bible, added: "Jehovah is not a functioning religious term. People...
Fred N. Robinson, Gurney Professor of English Literature, delivered the first of nine informal talks on English Poetry sponsored by the Poetry Room in Widener, yesterday afternoon...