Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Preliminary meeting of English 1 for new Freshmen, Emerson...
...Advocate" held a preliminary contest among students and submitted the best stories to three members of the English Department faculty for final winnowing. They chose two stories, which the magazine submitted as its entry in the national competition...
...Examination for examination from English A, New Lecture Hall. Now freshmen who did not take the College Board examination in English given in June, 1939, and these who did take it and received a grade of less than 595 but not less than 560 are eligible to take the examination for exemption from English...
...near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted God's revelation that he was to back their publication. (Meanwhile he had convinced a pretty, standoffish girl named Emma that God said she was to marry...
...Westinghouse's W8XK, the short-wave partner of Pittsburgh's KDKA. As 8XK, 8XS, then W8XK, this station has been broadcasting since 1921, is perhaps most noted for one of the least-heard radio features in the world-regular Far North news and general program broadcasts in English, French, Icelandic, Danish and Eskimo. The station was originally (as was KDKA) a gimmick in the garage of Westinghouse's Dr. Frank Conrad. The place had so much reverberation that Dr. Conrad pitched a tent inside, over the works-a sort of first radio soundproofing. It was 8XS that...