Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the statistical discoveries were more surprising: e.g.,, that a high-school youngster who 'is good in English or mathematics has the best chance of making good in college. But if he is good only at music or,art, he had better think twice about matriculating. These talents have a low correlation with other subjects; artists and economics do not go together...
Miiller revised the Sermon on the Mount, Bishop Weidemann the Gospel according to St. John. Though both jobs were done more than 18 months ago (TIME, Jan. 25, 1937), the Friends of Europe pamphlet is the first extensive English study of them...
When U. S. Tennis Champion Donald Budge returned to the U. S. three weeks ago with three of this season's foreign tennis crowns (Australian, French, English) on his carroty head, he turned his thoughts to defense of the Davis Cup, scheduled for Labor Day weekend at Germantown, Pa. "If Australia beats Germany in the interzone final, I figure Adrian Quist and John Bromwich might be good for one victory apiece in the challenge round against us," said...
...about England is still a novelty. Wife of a Ph.D. (brother of Publisher Richard Simon) who spent a year in England on an exchange professorship, 28-year-old Margaret Halsey has added enough wisecracks to make her novelty also a likely bestseller. Divested of wisecracks, Author Halsey's English impressions are surprisingly charitable - kinder than most English impressions of the U. S., kinder than Peggy Bacon's illustrations, and much kinder than the satire with which young English writers them selves hammer away at their gentry...
...stepmother country'' she found that the worst thing was "the boneless quality of English conversation . . . like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.'' But it saved Author Halsey from feeling inferior. English weather, about which most conversation revolved, made her think "I was going to grow a coating of moss on the north side." but she liked the green countryside. She ridiculed the diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that...