Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Champollion is wrong. Krasnaya, which also means red, is to krasivaya as bonny is to pretty. Authority: Moscow-published Russian-English Dictionary compiled by Professors V. Müller & S. Boyanus...
...Catholic churches during the month. Last week, on the eve of the month, Pope Pius XI with the Rosary in his thoughts delivered himself of an encyclical, or circular letter to all his bishops, such as he regularly continues to compose despite his feebleness. As summarized in English in Vatican City, the encyclical praises the Rosary, declares: "It requires, indeed, a simple and pious mind, but precisely for this reason, it educates the Christian unto a spirit of humility and that childlike simplicity which is spoken of in the Gospel." To his bishops the Pope recommends use of the Rosary...
...recently persuaded the Presbytery of Philadelphia North to establish a committee of social action. He and Saint are good friends but he thinks Saint's life-long labors at making his own glass (TIME, July 20, 1936) are "all hooey." Mr. Willet buys the glass he uses from English craftsmen or from William Benko of Milton, West Virginia, whom he rates as the best U. S. glassmaker. Despite this businesslike attitude and despite having produced several of the best examples of medieval stained-glass humor in the U. S., Willet has very serious theories on window designing, which...
Three hundred persons attended the opening lecture in the extra-curricular course, "Outlines of Christianity," last night in Harvard 1. Dean Hanford introduced the speaker, who was James B. Munn '12, professor of English...
...Japanese press, including the English language newspapers, continues to stress obediently that the present scrap, is the "China Incident," not at all a war in any sense of the word. Large space is given to supposed Russian interference which is prolonging the "Incident." The demand has been voiced several times for strengthening of the Cabinet, which admittedly was not created in a strength sufficient to carry on under the present difficulties. Again and again in the press comes the plea that the nation must achieve more unity, that Japan must present a united front to the world, and that...