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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Christine M. Gibson, research assistant to Richards, yesterday stated that as an international language, Basic English is sufficient, practical, and universal. So simple, in fact, is the language, that persons of Chinese, Indic, and Russian origin have learned it easily...
...C.E.D. has made itself vulnerable to political attack because 1) its origin links it too closely to Jesse Jones; 2) its grassroots autonomy has led to the appointment of some regional and community chairmen hitherto known as Old Dealers, Republican and Democratic. It is charged that some bitter Roosevelt-hating big shots are more interested in C.E.D. as a potential political weapon than as a potential builder of employment...
First foreign prince to receive the degree was Prince Henry of Prussia, who was welcomed by President Eliot in a special meeting at Sanders Theatre on March 7, 1902. Stressing the "Puritan origin of the University," Eliot declared that although previously two Presidents of the United States had received the coveted LL.D., Prince Henry was the first foreigner to have this honor awarded...
...fallen by the wayside, after we had given Mr. McNeill lists upon lists of all their reports, found ourselves face to face with the real thing on our last field trip. At that time, we discovered that the Hood Rubber Company is the origin of our last statistical headache--and they really use all those reports...
...many of them evasive. Marijuana may be called muggles, mooter, Mary Warner, Mary Jane, Indian hay, loco weed, love weed, bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics. It can be grown easily almost anywhere, hence...