Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victim Handsome Dan IV. English bulldog mascot of the Yale football team, rallied sharply late last night, and veterinarian Dr. S. Johnes gave the dog an even chance to pull through. Suffering from a serious paralysis of his posterior extremities, Dan was given slight hope in earlier dispatches from New Haven...
...critic who is also a poet is generally the best critic of poetry. The history of English literature affords numerous examples of this happy marriage of creative faculties; unfortunately, we have comparatively few men today who have given sufficient evidence of their abilities in both capacities to warrant their being accepted as inheritors of that tradition. None, however, would question Mark Van Doren's right to be so described...
FIELDPLAN B PLAN A TOTAL Anthropology 1 10 11 Astronomy 0 3 3 Biochemical Sciences 11 25 36 Biology 2 22 24 Chemistry 52 52 Classics 11 11 Economics 119 119 Engineering Sciences 37 37 English 9 51 60 Far Eastern Languages 1 1 Fine Arts 0 20 20 Geological Sciences 21 21 German 3 3 Government 38 69 107 History 28 70 98 History and Literature 30 30 History and Science 1 1 Indic Philology 1 1 Literature 4 4 Mathematics 17 17 Music 5 5 Philosophy 17 17 Physics 6 9 15 Psychology 17 9 26 Romance Languages...
Today the Faculty convenes in a session which may produce a revolution of major proportions against Administration policies. The situation has been growing steadily more heated, and it is about time for the lid to blow off. Yesterday the English and Government departments met in long and stormy meetings which may well have been preludes to this afternoon...
Sharp-minded critics had their reservations about the quality of Prokosch's world picture, still further reservations about his fundamental drive as a prose writer. Like his two books of poetry, the novels suggested a virtuoso's familiarity with English, French and Oriental literature; in places this familiarity became obtrusive, as in one chapter ending of The Asiatics which echoed (beautifully) a paragraph from Baudelaire's Intimate Journals. What would be the result if this young American, born in Wisconsin and educated at Haverford and Yale, turned his imagination to his own country...