Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...express Kraft durch Freude in English and retain its initial meaning it would be much more fitting to translate it as Vigor through Enjoyment or Vitality through Delight or Health through Happiness...
...French have a word for it-rentier-but I know of no one English word...
...Ormesby Bank, four miles from Middlesbrough at the edge of the North York Cleveland moors, months of experiment were triumphantly concluded when an Soft, steel antenna caught 70 minutes of television program transmitted from Alexandra Palace through 220 miles of fog-thickened English air. Freak bounces of ultrashort waves have been recorded: Alexandra Palace signals have been picked up as far away as South Africa. But 50 miles has been the generally accepted limit for reception of reliable pictures...
After digging out the basin for a pond, the Stone Age people lined it with straw, then covered the straw with a layer of clay. This furnished the necessary insulation. Some present-day English builders are reputedly able to make successful dew ponds, but they generally use concrete instead of straw and clay. Moreover, after construction, these modern ponds have to be filled with water first in order to keep going. Whether the ponds of the ancients filled up by natural accumulation of water, starting from a dry basin, no one knows...
...five & ten" is now pretty much a misnomer, with Woolworth and Kresge selling items up to $1. But in England "three & six penny'' still has some semblance of accuracy. Woolworth's, which opened its first English store in 1909 and last year had 711 with profit of $32,000,000. no longer adheres to the strict price policy. But its biggest rival, the 228 Marks & Spencer stores which earned just over $8,000,000 in 1937, still does...