Word: ivor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Valley of Death. In a dried-up river gulch yellow-haired Sergeant Ivor Andrews watched 17 German tanks file up a slope, let the first four go by towards another gun crew, knocked out the next three. When Belden visited the battlefield after it was all over, he counted 52 German tanks left on the arid, rock-strewn plain between the Matmata Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. Some were blackened from fire, some were still splotched with green camouflage and black crosses. Turrets were torn off, fronts were blown in. They were casualties of Rommel's most earnest attempt...
Sayre spent four months working out a usable basic Spanish and writing the script. He found that the average Mexican laborer has about 500 words at his command, a white-collar worker some 2,000. With some advice from Harvard's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong ("Basic English") Richards, he boiled the Spanish course down to a working vocabulary. This 13-week transcribed series is available to any radio station...
High up, too, among revivals, is the 44-year-old flimflam, The Belle of New York, now seeing its third war without change of jokes or costumes. Longest-lived musical is Ivor (Keep the Home Fires Burning) Novello's The Dancing Years, recently past the 1,000 mark. Other flourishing musicals: Get a Load of This, featuring Winston Churchill's son-in-law, Vic Oliver; and a revival of Rose-Marie, a Broadway favorite of the '20s. Americans in Britain damn London's musicals as miles below U.S. standards, and former N.Y. Herald Tribune Critic Richard...
...newcomer to Hollywood, slight, humorous, 49-year-old Ivor Richards has amply pretested Basic English in textbook and lecture. Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, he traveled eight years as a Basic missionary in Europe and China, in 1939 became director of the Harvard Commission on English Language Studies under a Rockefeller grant. His textbook for Massachusetts adult aliens (soon to be published by Houghton Mifflin) made a big hit in Latin America. One of his two Basic helpers in China was killed in a bombing raid; the other, in Kunming, has reported a lively business in the first book...
Linguistic Imperialism? Some critics have accused Ivor Richards of cooking up a sort of pidgin English. No criticism annoys him more. Though he rewrote Plato's Republic in 1,000 Basic words, his sole interest in Basic, he says, is to aid in clarifying thought and to simplify language education...