Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world-renowned authority on English literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, Greenough was also a distinguished author. He was co-author with the late Professor Barrett Wendell of "History of Literature in America...
Former head of English A. Greenough was one of the editors of "Writing Well," one of the best known college textbooks on English composition...
...house in Manhattan at No. 125 East 36th Street, six months after his father graduated from. Columbia University's Law School, but his earliest memories are of Albany when his father was the State Senator from Hyde Park. James had not long toddled around Albany with his English nurse (his chief interest then was learning the names of all the local fire horses) before he was whisked off to Washington for seven years of the Wilson Administration...
...foreigners to resume living, shopping and paying taxes in Hongkew, the recently fought-over section of the International Settlement north of Soochow Creek that has long been predominantly Japanese. Hesitant British and U. S. former residents last week studied a list of regulations and inducements, published in English at Japanese Army headquarters...
...hoped that everyone wishing to live in Hongkew will make friends with the Japanese. Japanese ladies, 150 from the Tokyo High School, well versed in English, are now in Shanghai for the sole purpose of being better acquainted with foreigners. Further details regarding interviews etc. will be furnished . . . in the office of the Secretary to the Commander of the Naval Fleet in Shanghai. "Foodstuffs will be sold at 23½% discount. Saki will be free to those who drink to the health of the Emperor, and a quantity not exceeding two liters [slightly more than ½ gallon] can be taken...