Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulk of Eire's farming population the most important provision was the tearing down of tariff walls. When the retaliatory tariffs were instituted in 1932, Irish farmers lost their English markets, Anglo-Irish trade tumbled from $400,000,000 a year to only $210,000,000 in 1937. Last week's treaty practically brings Eire into the British Empire's Ottawa tariff group, provides that all Irish goods enter Britain duty-free while only certain British goods have the same privilege in Eire. The only ones who had no reason to acclaim this re-establishment of virtual...
...private life Lady Peel, Canadian-born widow of a British peer, Actress Lillie is, at 40, the brittle darling of the English-speaking stage for her merciless take-offs of less sophisticated darlings. Her first appearance on the screen, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers silent Exit Smiling (1926) sent audiences unsmiling away. Four years later, her Fox talkie, Are You There?, brought no warmer response. The Lillie repertory in Doctor Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons...
Starring nine Commonwealth Fellows, exchange graduate students from English universities, six of whom are residents here, a highly-touted Harvard field hockey team faces a powerful Vassar eleven in a presumably heated contest this afternoon at Poughkeepsie...
...order to reach the other half of its end, English A ought, first, to attain unity by determining a coherent program and, second, to place emphasis upon expository writing. In the fall the section men should convene and formulate a general plan of teaching that will be carried out by each. Similarity in method makes for consistency in accomplishment. The superficial coaching in the dramatic, narrative, and like forms of composition could well be eliminated, and instead more time given to the fundamental art of exposition. It is more to the point of a Harvard degree that the undergraduate know...
...idea of five hundred new Doctors of Philosophy a year in this country is appalling" declared H. Mumford Jones, professor of English, before the Modern Language Conference in the Junior Common Room of Winthrop House last night...