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...linguist, teaching aerology: "The performance of unfamiliar tasks seems to me to reveal the adaptability which liberal education is supposed to promote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professors at Work | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...linguist, teaching navigation: "Those involved in Navy teaching will be so far behind their colleagues that they will suffer in scholarship, rank and salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Professors at Work | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...Wellington Koo, wealthy wife of the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain, is a collector of jade and friends, a famed hostess, a noted linguist (English, French, Dutch, German, Mandarin, Malay)-and an unpublished author. For four years she has worked on an autobiography, but only recently did her busy husband, now in the U.S., find time to read it. Two days before the book was due to go on sale last week, more than 6,000 booksellers and critics who already had copies got a hurried telegram from Dial Press: "Publication suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Day of Days | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...most valuable members of the foreign staff of the New York Times, he emphasized is a linguist who has command of 14 languages and spends his time listening to the radio reports from all of Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threatened Arrests For Espionage Used By Nazi Censors, Knauth Says | 3/17/1942 | See Source »

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