Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observation that current would pass in only this one direction through the tube was first put to work thirty years ago by J. A. Fleming, an English physicist, who saw a possible use for this feature in the detection and rectifying of radio signals, then being pioneered by Marconi...
Discouragement, delay, the difficulties of learning English, a sea voyage enlivened by the sight of pirates did not cool Mother Duchesne's ardor for civilizing the "savages" of the New World. The first thing she did when she stepped ashore was kiss the boggy soil of Louisiana. It took her and her four colleagues 40 days to ascend the river to St. Louis. The nuns were placed aft on the steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half...
MacNeice went to Oxford (1926-30), is a lyric poet of the English tradition. In his collected Poems (1926-37) he publishes a number of the most engaging, and a few of the excellent poems of the times...
FADE OUT-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). The third importation in a year of a prolific, English popular novelist: this one about a playwright and an actress, in a plot which only the proverbial rich grandmother can straighten...
...DANGEROUS YEARS - Gilbert Frankau-Button ($2.50). Lengthy (686 pages), second-grade family chronicle about second-grade English nobility, relieved by well-spaced sudden deaths; by a veteran author, still doing business at the old stand...