Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite all that Yale and her scholars can do to purify the English language, Harvard's pedantic phrases are ever with us. In fact they are so firmly entrenched at Cambridge that the Maintenance Department has just glorified a new exit in Sever Hall with the sign "Emergency Egress Only...
...Bryn Mawr College housed students of French and German in new buildings where they will be permitted to speak English only one half-hour...
...boat and train to Paris, where in a small secret office his enlistment papers were filled out and approved; by train to Marseille and thence, by night and with all lights darkened, in a freighter across the Mediterranean-so John Sommerfield, young English Leftist writer, got into Spain to join the Loyalist Army. Landing, he was rushed to Albacete ("when I saw the name on the station it meant nothing then"), where in an ex-nunnery the collection of foreign volunteers later to be known as the International Column were being drilled for combat. Here he had his first chance...
...younger sister a long-lacked audience and companion. A haymow discovery plus Calvinism plus an illegitimate child turn the McLeod household into one of the least cheerful places in the Middle West. Most exotic of the five novelettes is the somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character of the book is a remarkable native servant named Ramazini, whose dying German bwana (master) instructs him to deliver a collection of parrots to London. Against the sadistic treatment of a tramp steamer's first officer, Ramazini opposes first his extraordinary...
SCIENCE Mathematics A366 Biology D 216 Chemistry B 201 Chemistry 2 193 Physics C 181 Mathematics 2 174 Chemistry A 153 Geology 1 147 Physics B 128 Geography 1 93 Eng. Science 1a 84 Anthropology 1a 81 LANGUAGES English A 549 French E 357 German A 267 English A-1 202 English 52a 170 English 30a 157 German E 143 French C 141 English 7 135 English 1 134 Spanish 1 93 Latin B 68 OTHER FIELDS Fine Arts 1e 266 Psychology A 249 Music 1 204 Comp. Lit. 35a 195 Philosophy A 167 Philosophy C 110 Military...