Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like German, Irish, English immigrants, freedom-hungry Poles came to the U. S. in flight from oppression-after their army's ill-starred revolt against Russian domination; to escape the knout of Tsar Alexander II; in a tide in the '80s; in a tidal wave in the 15 years preceding World War I. Greatest concentration of Poles in the world today is Chicago's 500,000. Other great centres: Detroit, Buffalo, New York...
That plants have "emotions," "heart beats," feel pain, were theories of the late Hindu Botanist Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Every gardener knows that "wounded" plants heal themselves with mysterious juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch Plantman Aire Jan Haagen-Smit, announced that they had solved the mystery of that healing juice. In a kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps...
...star of the current Kaufman and Hart comedy studied under George Lyman Kittredge, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emerlins, when he was working for his M.A. degree from Harvard in 1913. He has never considered any other profession but the stage since then, he said...
President Conant's revitalized American Civilization Plan was launched last night with a talk in Leverett House on "Americanism" by Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, while simultaneously the Freshmen held a round-table discussion on "Causes of the American Revolution" at the Union...
...other hand, the President would have to be assured of a receptive British attitude. This is very likely, since English leaders must be frightened as never before in their centuries of bull-headed progress. There is every possibility-almost a probability-of English defeat. At the best, Britain can expect destruction of all her industrial concentrations and the loss of the tremendous store of invested wealth which she has been amassing ever since Drake brought home the Golden Hind. At the worst she can expect extreme political and economic humiliation. Peace is wisest...