Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...words, his Chicago American Dictionary, "the first historical dictionary of the American tongue." The task has already occupied him for four years. Professor Craigie, a thorough believer in the autonomy of Americanisms,* points out that "American inventiveness, coupled with the strange and rich conditions which faced pioneers on the frontier, have brought forth, in three centuries of American independence, changes in language comparable to the Elizabethan period in England...
...Isles breathed easier, but Britons on the spot continued acutely anxious as tens of thousands of natives in small white "Gandhi caps" paraded through Bombay, thousands through such cities as Calcutta and Madras. At Poona paraders carried a likeness of George V festooned with old shoes. From the Afghan frontier came news that shrewd Afghan traders were refusing Indian coins stamped with the Emperor's head, saying "George's head is like Amanullah's* now-no good...
Such accomplishments she meant when, in vigorous exhortation, she cried: "We've arrived at last! Such a journey we've had! . . . The Salvation Army is now an empire without frontier. But our work is not finished. March on until Paganism has burned its last idol and Mohammedanism has renounced its false prophet and Christianity prevails everywhere...
...written around the same character from O. Henry's story and acted by the same Baxter. It is one more piece of evidence that the "western," already an eminently successful cinematic formula, has in one way been energized and in another way sterilized by the sound device. Frontier atmosphere, crystallized in words and incidental noises, and the opportunity offered to expert modern photographers by frontier hillscapes have proved important at the box office. On the other hand, the speed of the old western, that unstoppable rush of visual images which would have been a highly exciting thing even without...
...lack of energy and strength, expressed in the philosophy of a genuine artist, has receded into the past." Roughly, Dostoievski and Tolstoi are as representative of contemporary Russia as are Nathaniel Parker Willis and James Fenimore Cooper of the U. S. Strange names loom on the Soviet art-frontier. To know Russian esthetics one must be familiar with the work of Theatre Producers Meyerhold, Tairov; Cinema Directors Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Room. Preobrazhenskaya; Poets Yessenin, Maiakovski, Asejev, Blok; Authors Ogniev. Bogdanov, Malashkin; Artists Gabo, Vinogradov, Radimov; and understand the meaning of the Russian symbols, MGSPS. VAPP, NEP, GOSIZDAT (or simply. GIZ), AKHRR...