Word: philologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble with all the 'universal' languages is that the juices of life are simply not in them. They are the creations of scholars drowning in murky oceans of dead prefixes and suffixes, and so they fail to meet the needs of a highly human world." Freestyle Philologist Mencken feels that Basic, "for all its deficiencies," is better than any artificial tongue because it is derived from a living...
...several things about this announcement that perturb us. It may be, of course, that Mrs. Smith has chosen this quaint and premature method of sending a valentine to Ballantine. It may be that music, as a profession, has been underestimated. The eighteenth century method of capitalization indicates that a Philologist has been meddling. Who knows? At any rate, we hope that none of the guests will really be so coarse as to be found including a lady...
More than 50 other German-Jewish professors of pure, applied and medical sciences have either been forced to resign or have been rudely thrown out of their chairs. No other eminent scientists have followed the example of Professor Hermann Jacobsohn, Indo-Germanic philologist at Marburg, who threw himself under a train. But many a Jew in Germany is known to be carrying an ampoule of poison for escape in case of race riot...
...same year that Albert Frank founded his firm, Rudolph Guenther was born in Vienna, the son of a philologist. His father immigrated to the U. S., be came managing editor of the Milwaukee Herald. Son Rudolph grew up in the circulation and advertising offices of news papers, at 16 established the Lake View (Ill.) Review with his brother Louis as staff. Brother Louis Guenther is now publisher of The Financial World. Rudolph ventured to Manhattan with capital of $3 in 1896, set himself up as an advertising agent the following year. Like Albert Frank he prospered, now collects rare books...
...Eskimo language, invented a typewriter upon which he typed hymnbooks, prayer-books, catechisms in Eskimo script. With other missionaries at Chesterfield Inlet he built a radio transmitter so that Eskimos may grunt at each other over the frigid air. Monsignor Turquetil, bearded nobly and baldheaded, is an able philologist. But chiefly he can gain converts by telling them how best to fish. Says he: "Taking fish out of the net is no easy job. If you take your hands out of the water for more than a second they will freeze solid. The only way is to take the cartilage...