Word: polyglot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English." The Anticipatory is the hardest exam the College offers. This year more than 950 students were eligible for the exam. Thirty passed; they were inordinately lucky or exceptionably skillful. The rest, except for those who pull down an A after the first term, will have to sweat out polyglot sections until June...
...days this summer the World Council will meet officially for the first time. Churchmen with such polyglot titles as archbishop, archimandrite, catholicos, exarch, moderator, pfarrer, priest, minister, pasteur, professor and elder will worship and confer with laymen of almost every Christian faith but the Roman Catholic...
According to Don E. McNicol '48,3L who is in charge of the Union newsstand, last year's large and polyglot Freshman Class, made up largely of war veterans was no different in this respect, than this year's Class...
...generations, Hawaii's teachers have struggled to make their students learn English, and haven't succeeded yet. Most of Hawaii's polyglot population-Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans, Puerto Ricans-prefer pidgin English, the nearest thing to a common language in the Islands...
...East 70s and is the author of such best-sellers as The Valley of Decision and Of Lena Geyer. East Side, West Side is a glimpse at these two worlds. It straddles Manhattan in the manner of a crosstown bus, picking up a sampling of the city's polyglot population and giving them a good shaking-up as it goes along. At journey's end, only the well-heeled passengers are badly bruised...