Word: ivor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walt Disney was the first speaker. The second was Ivor Armstrong Richards, famed British co-developer and chief propagator of Basic English (850-word vocabulary...
...Commission on English Language Studies was set up last fall under the direction of Ivor A. Richards, University Lecturer noted for his writings on literary criticism, aesthetics and logic. The Commission is engaged at present on practical English instruction for foreign students and is undertaking a research program for the further development of English teaching methods in foreign countries...
Also desired by the Library are W. Ivor Jennings, "Parliament"; Harold J. Laski, "Parliamentary Government in England"; A. W. Peach, editor, "Selections from Thomas Paine"; A. S. Ronur, "Man and Vertebrates"; Vernon Parkington, "Main Currents in American Literature"; Louis Hacker, "Triumph of American Capitalism"; Anne Radcliffe, "Mysteries of Udolphe"; F. M. Stenton, "First Century of English Feudalism"; James F. Cooper, "Home as Found...
...while delegates talked, Reinhold Schairer and his fellow conspirators retired to a conference room to put their dreams on paper. It was an oddly assorted group: small, baldish John Bell Condliffe, eminent Australian economist now teaching at University of California; Ivor Armstrong Richards (Basic English), of Cambridge University and Harvard; Progressive Educator William Heard Kilpatrick, of Columbia University's Teachers College, and his vigorous wife; dark young Philosophy Professor Max Black, of University of Illinois; stocky young Robert Bauer, an Austrian youth leader; bush-browed Malcolm MacLean, president of Hampton Institute; others of whose practical idealism Leader Schairer felt...
...visitors quickly made themselves at home. They went shopping for U. S. clothes and cars, mobbed Chapel Hill's three leading undergraduate "juke joints"-Aggie's, Harry's, The Pines. Most popular class was one in Basic English (850 words), taught by Harvard's Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards, who was lent to North Carolina especially for the occasion. Although the visitors learned rapidly, the campus had some chuckles. At the movies, a South American asked his date whether she had yet been afflicted with "the constipation" (flu). Another visitor, invited to a freshman party, told...