Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, emeritus, gave the lecture last year, selecting as his subject "Ideas of the After Life in the Teutonic Religions...
Last week before a convention in Buffalo of the National Council of Teachers of English, Dr. Stella S. Center, director of New York University's reading clinic, reported: 1) what constitutes bad reading habits, 2) how they may be corrected. Dr. Center, 60, who is co-chairman of the English department in New York City's Theodore Roosevelt High School, started three years ago to cure bad habits of the 60% of students who came to the school below par in reading. So successful were these remedial classes that they were extended to other high schools and last...
...Most Rev. Nicholas Kedroff, their Archbishop, officiated at a service celebrating the Cathedral's 35th birthday.* Pungent incense swirled, Russian prelates' vestments gleamed in the candlelight during the long service in which Archbishop Kedroff, whose 35th birthday it was also, preached to his flock in Russian and English...
...find he could. He invented two traps: one which got the muskrats not only by the leg (which they often gnaw off to escape) but also by the body; another which netted them, captured them alive. Before long he was inventing and manufacturing traps to catch everything from English sparrows to bears. By 1919 he had a large factory in Trainer, Pa., made as many as 2,000,000 traps a year, grossed annually as much as $400,000. But the fur business in all its branches was hit hard by Depression. Last year he sold out to his only...
Having sold lanital patents to German, English, French and Belgian concerns, Snia Viscosa, which always has been internationally minded, is now intent on moving into the U. S., plans to begin by sending its fibres to the U. S., eventually will build U. S. factories. U. S. representatives are the big New York firm of Meyer & Marks Yarn Co. Inc., whose president, Jack W. Block, likes to assert that lanital will do to the wool business what rayon had done to the silk. U. S. woolmen, absorbed with more immediate troubles (see p. 75) last week produced no retort...