Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With over 1,500 foreign students now in the Greater Boston area activities in the past year or two have hit some kind of zenith. Lectures last year ranged from "Zoroastrianism" to "The Ethnic Groups in Cambridge," but the programs also offered more universal appeal with dances and activities of the S-O-M-E--scouting, outing, meeting, and eating--Committee that did all those things with equal verve and success. "Open House" on Sundays attracts many American students who come to partake of both an education more liberal than the GE program and also of what the Center calls...
...sizable section and a half (960 acres). A few years ago he turned his farm over to his sons, now lives comfortably with the help of his old-age pension. In his time, the Ukrainians in Canada have increased to 325,000, the Dominion's sixth largest ethnic group. "I have no desire to return to the Ukraine, even to see it," he says. "My life in Canada has been too happy to want to return...
...policy which guarantees maximum protections against resurgent Axis aggressors, and which dramatically offers specific guaranties as an earnest of American good faith. It is a demilitarization policy. It is a policy which now substitutes justice for vengeance in these formulas of peace; which now insists upon ethnic recognitions that no longer traffic in the lives and destinies of helpless peoples; and which spurns expansionism as a plague upon tomorrow's peace and security. It is a policy which invites all of our partners in the war-instead of a closed corporation of big powers-to have a proper voice...
...invented his Universal Character and Philosophical Language. He comes down to Basic English and its current competitors (Iret, Swensen, Aiken), in all of which Bodmer sees virtues. But he does not share Winston Churchill's complete enthusiasm for Basic. He favors a synthetic interlanguage rather than a simplified ethnic one. He and Hogben have drafted one which might be called Hogbod: Hogben calls it Interglossa and recently published a Penguin paperbook about it in England.* It has about 3,000 words, largely of Latin and Greek roots, and a simple syntax on the Chinese style. Intelligent high-school graduates...
...Germany will be neither powerless nor unimportant. Says Dr. Notestein: "Germans will continue to form the largest ethnic group west of the Slavs. On their continued productive efficiency will depend much of the economic welfare of Europe. It [must] be maintained. Otherwise, a train of poverty and disillusionment, spreading throughout the Continent, might soon bring a new political upheaval...