Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graustein, Mathematics; C. B. Gulick, Classics; A. Haertlein, Engineering Sciences; C. H. Haring, History; E. B. Hill, Music; William E. Hocking, Philosophy; Arthur N. Holcombe, Government; E. A. Hooton, Anthropology; D. H. McLaughlin, Geology; D. H. Menzel, Astronomy; Andre Morize, Committee for Elementary Modern Language Instruction; James B. Munn, English; A. J. McMullen, English; C. Palache, Mineralogy; T. Parsans, Sociology; R. H. Pfeiffer, Semitic; P. J. Sachs, Fine Arts; F. A. Saunders, Physics; J. R. Ware, Indic Philology; and R. H. Wetmore, Biology...
Charles S. Denny '34, of Brookline, in Geology; Charles H. Fay, of Austin, Texas, in Physics; Daniel B. Aaron, of Cambridge, in English; Charles E. Carr '35, of Maiden, in English; and Charles I. Weir '36, of Kew Gardens, Long Island, New York, in English...
True, that appliance euphemistically dubbed the W.C. is still a standby of the funsters. And in this connection it is interesting to note that these initials have been absorbed into more languages than any other English expression, second only to the American "O. K." And while the pronunciation of the magic word in German or French may not be at once recognizable, the handwriting on the wall is always plain to any literate person, thus demonstrating simultaneously the advantages of an education, and the marvellous potentialities of an international languages, such as Esperanto, to supplement that of love...
...Ukrainian village of Jewish parents, he lived there long enough to remember a pogrom, was taken to the U. S. in 1904. Growing up in the poverty-stricken Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, he learned U. S. ways painfully, was beaten up by Irish boys, stumbled over the English language, saw one of his friends flee after killing a policeman, learned the reality of hard times when his parents were evicted from their tenement...
...church, politics, sociology. A favorite teacher persuaded him to the first. For this he spent four hard years of preparatory work under the Basilican Order. William Leonard was a brisk Republican lawyer with a Yale degree Pargo the same year Father Coughlin ventured out priesthood as instruction in English at Assumption College (Ontario). That was in 1917. By 1936, Candidate Lemke had deserted the Republicans and received and support of a radio priest who had found a career politics and sociology within the Shueeh...