Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Student Union Peace Study Group were advised to attend. The club proposes to study the recently formulated language which is advocated as a vehicle for diplomacy and cementing international ties. The language is a combination and simplification of elements of many tongues including English, German, French, Spanish, and Folish. Already over a million people are said to belong to the movement and are able to converse in the language...
...polletman Glidden will be a great loss, and Cowles is depending on many of last year's winning Freshman team to fill in the gaps. Coming up from these ranks will be George B. Blake '39, Francis H. Appleton 3rd '39, Spurgeon H. Cunningham, Jr. '39 and James English...
...published work and the most valuable Boswell manuscript thus far discovered. Last week, 163 years after it was written, Boswell's full Journal was published in the U. S. for the first time. It made a handsome, leisurely, well-documented edition of one of the least stuffy of English classics, a pleasant book for casual readers, a superb one for admirers of the great doctor and his amiable biographer...
ROSE DEEPROSE-Sheila Kaye-Smith- Harper ($2.50). The fateful story of a healthy English farm girl who at 26 has unwittingly caused the death of her mother, her dearest friend, her idiot child, the suicide of her husband...
EGGS AND BAKER - John Masefield - Macmillan ($2.50). The Dickens-like story of a deeply religious baker in a small English town of the 1870's who, influenced by a theatrical radical leader named Engels, agitates against slum conditions, is driven out of business, goes to jail for throwing an egg at the judge who condemns two poachers to death...