Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...science's most audacious hoaxes. For four decades after the announcement in 1912 of its discovery near the English hamlet of Piltdown, the curious fossil with the humanlike cranium and the apelike jaw was believed by many anthropologists to be the long-sought "missing link" between man and ape. But in 1953, after application of new analytic techniques to thefamous skull, the ruse was finally revealed: the Piltdown man, as the fossil was dubbed, was a fraud. It consisted of nothing more than fragments of modern human skulls mingled with portions of a contemporary ape jaw with teeth doctored...
...English department got into the act Tuesday, voting to offer Brustein a post in the department if he is appointed director of the Loeb...
...George Pierce Baker, then professor of English, proposed founding a drama school at Harvard. When Harvard administrators nixed the idea. Baker packed his bags and moved to Yale, and thus was born the Yale School of Drama...
...says it would be nice to have another English player on the team to complement his playing style. He has done well for himself at midfield, though, using his head for the game to choreograph the Harvard attack, which has become much more controlled this season...
...weeks to get ready, so I came," Smith explains. And he does not regret it. He feels that the well-rounded American liberal arts education is much better than the specialized English university education, where one only takes courses in one's concentration...