Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME regrets that it misheard Rabbi Mann's benediction, delivered in Hebrew and English, but still thinks there was good poetry in the TIME version: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...
Other Provisions. Erse (Gaelic) will be the official language, with English as an alternate. No divorces will be permitted. Though the Roman Catholic Church will be recognized as "the guardian of the faith professed by the great majority of the citizens," religious freedom will be guaranteed to other denominations...
Back to the roots of recorded history go the connections between Spain and Ireland. On an English dockside fortnight ago, Welsh-born David Lloyd George exaggerated mildly when he cried: "I am a Basque!" (TIME, May 3). Anthropologists agree that physically the Basques are indistinguishable from the members of the Celtic race, the Welsh, the Irish, the Bretons and the Scots...
...Have sighted an English ship. Proceeding to investigate...
Said Wheaton College's President John Edgar Park: "He has done a delightfully artistic job at Smith." Complained Wellesley's youthful Mildred Helen McAfee: "Dr. Neilson is constantly held up to us as a shining example!" Revealed Andover's Headmaster Claude Fuess, who studied English under Dr. Neilson at Columbia: "I remember when he did not think so much of girl students. In fact, he discouraged them by keeping his office in a constant fog of smoke." Radcliffe's Ada Louise Comstock, who once served as Smith's dean, recalled a Neilson lecture...