Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's Air Secretary, Sir Kingsley Wood, dapper, chubby and dynamic, witnessed some 900 bombers and fighters in the games. After three days of "war," Britishers were more skeptical than ever of their defenses. Aided by typical English fog and mist, "Eastland's" bombers jabbed through coastal defenses and rained white rockets, indicating hits, on interior manufacturing centres, including Norfolk, Suffolk and North London. Territorials, firing anti-aircraft rockets, were unable to prevent "Eastland" squads from roaring over London. As a crowning gesture, one "Eastland" squadron located the defenders' GHQ at Hornchurch, Essex, gleefully swooped down...
...their sessions the Esperantists discussed only one thing: how to popularize their synthetic lingo. Though the League boasts more than 1,500,000 Esperantists all over the world, Esperanto has been threatened for four years by the popularity of Basic English, the skeleton tongue (vocabulary: 850 words) designed by Orthologer Charles Kay Ogden. Esperanto in Esperanto means "one who hopes." The somewhat frantic hope of last week's Kongreso in Londono, Anglujo, was that Esperanto should not become a dead language before it ever showed real signs of life in either of its intended capacities...
Lutine herself, 32-gun pride of the British Navy, which sailed Oct. 9, 1799, from Yarmouth Roads, laden with gold ingots worth $10,000,000. Some of the gold was to pay off the English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
...years since, five salvage expeditions, French, German, Dutch, English, have recovered no more than $200,000, a few cannon balls, a spoon, some brass nails and the ship's bell which now hangs in Lloyd's. Meanwhile, the Lutine settled down 70 feet through loose sand till she rested on the clay bottom. Last spring, Lloyd's licensed Billiton Point Mining...
Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper, English Tennist Kay Stammers, William Waldorf Astor and the Maharaja of Bhavnagar last week were racing against time. As passengers on the Queen Mary, they were assured by Commodore R. B. Irving that they had a good chance of beating the Normandie's westbound trans-atlantic record of 3 days, 23 hr., 2 min. They did, passing the Ambrose Channel Lightship 3 days, 21 hr., 48 min. after they had left Bishop Rock, off Land's End, England. Best day's run: 790 miles...