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...committee proposed that Yale's Department of Religion, which now offers only four courses, taught by instructors from other departments, be enlarged. As a starter, the department might employ full-time instructors in psychology and the history of Christianity. Eventually it should include an anthropologist, a historian, a linguist, specialists in non-Christian religions and in the philosophy of religion...
What Goes On? On the western front, two Tibetans who had walked into Russia, been promptly drafted into the Red Army, then captured by the Germans, drafted into the German Army, and finally captured by Canadians, learned from a linguist for the first time in five years what all the fighting was about...
...University of Adak," in the Aleutians. It is sometimes ankle-deep in mud. Its plant consists of four half-barrel-shaped Quonset huts. Its faculty is a pickup team of volunteers. A 47-year-old chief bosun's mate in the Seabees is the faculty's linguist. A onetime student at the Universities of Paris and Moscow and onetime lieutenant in the Czar's World War I army, he speaks French, German, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian. Another Adak instructor is a music teacher who was once "Amos & Andy's" organist...
...Shippee shenoddy," said the linguist, trying a new tack. I asked him what he was saying now. He said...
Step Three. "Somebody go get a four-block charge of TNT," said the marine sergeant, who hadn't put much faith in his linguist's coaxing ability in the first place. At this point an armored bulldozer, piloted by a young Seabee, rumbled through the underbrush. The sergeant explained the situation to him. The bulldozer man drove his blade into the earth and started to push dirt from the ground level into the quarry where it fell across the mouth of the cave...