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Word: linguistical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...linguist and etymologist, I do sympathize with the editors of America in their outcry against the corruption of the English language by the advertising agencies [TIME, Jan. 24]. I feel, though, that Father Davis has overlooked the deeper meaning of the old fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin and the old rule that "the baby has to have a name." The excesses of the advertisers are merely proof that the Biblical injunction to Adam that he give names to the things of the earth is getting harder every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1955 | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...report saw a great need for an anthropological linguist. "The highly developed state of linguistics and the importance of the field to the anthropologist make the absence of the person who is primarily a linguist our most conspicuous weakness in the field. "If we ever get another permanent appointment," Willey said, "a linguist is what we would like to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin, Willey Oppose Soc. Rel. Center But Differ on Other Committee Findings | 1/13/1955 | See Source »

Baron Konstantin von Neurath, fluent linguist and brilliant diplomatist, had suavely served the Weimar Republic as Foreign Minister, then without apparent twinge of conscience served Hitler. In 1941 he finally resigned as Hitler's "Protector" of Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Number Three | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...marched with another touring VIP, Germany's sturdy old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in a solemn convocation at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Awarding her an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, Columbia cited her as more than a queen. Said the citation: "A gifted musician, accomplished linguist, and understanding student of the arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Queen Mum at Large | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...Indo-China is one of the oldest and most successful examples of Christian outreach in the Far East. Missionaries were established in Indo-China long before the French colonizers arrived. Among the most successful of these was 25-year-old Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes of Avignon. A brilliant linguist, within six months Father de Rhodes began transforming the character writing of Vietnamese into a Romanized script. He rapidly built up a native clergy, which kept the church strong during periods of persecution under unfriendly monarchs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: North of the Parallel | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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