Word: haus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of current events talks have been arranged for the first session of the Summer Term. One of these series, scheduled for 4 P.M. on Tuesday afternoons beginning July 7, will deal particularly with international events and will be presented by Professor Haus Kohn of Smith College in the New Lecture Hall. The other series, dealing more especially with national affairs, will be presented by members of the faculty of Harvard University at 4 P.M. on Thursday beginning July 2 in the New Lecture Hall. Both series are open to the general public...
Meanwhile in Mexico City, student demonstrators were smashing windows in the German Club, and leftist radicals "stormed" the Deutsches Haus. The Stalinists hastened to make political hay: Vicente Lombardo Toledano, President of the shadowy "Confederation of Workers of Latin America," wrote President Manuel Avila Camacho demanding that Mexico instantly declare formal war on the Axis and seize all Axis citizens' property; the leaders of the Stalinist-controlled C.T.M., biggest Mexican labor federation, demanded...
Fonetix. In New Jersey, the Liquor Control Department got a complaint about "to meni yung womens skriming all nights." It pleaded: "All I wanted is more reasonable much more gwiter that we culd stay in our own haus and having a little of sliping. ... I hope you make my wish satisfatorelis...
...last week Hermann Göring stood on the platform of the timbered hall in Berlin's Haus der Flieger (Fliers' Club) and said: "Everywhere in the Reich, armament factories are undisturbed. Here & there an occasional bomb has temporarily caused interruptions but not a single plant, not a single factory of importance, has been destroyed...
...Society in New York City, Alonzo Turner read a paper entitled "West African Survivals in the Vocabulary of Gullah." Gullah is the dialect spoken by a group of Negroes living in an isolated part of South Carolina. . . . According to Mr. Turner's studies, Gullah jook-house (phonetically, dzuk haus), meaning "a disorderly house, a house of ill repute," is related apparently to words in two West African languages. In Wolof, dzug or dzog means "to lead a disorderly life, to misconduct oneself." In Bambara, dzugu means "wicked...