Word: polyglot
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...mean adversary for him, provided it takes the steps necessary to prepare for the expected challenge. On the asset side the U. S. is already a great, rich, well-fed, homogeneous nation compared to Hitler's Europe which is half-starved and polyglot, with its industrial resources disrupted and partially destroyed by war. The U. S. is likewise, as of the present moment, a far greater naval power. If Britain is beaten, the U.S. will also have one new strength: no longer will citizens have any feeling that steps taken for U. S. protection are intended to pull some...
Sprawling, spawning, polyglot India is a tough territory for radio. Its 352,837,778 inhabitants, 89% of them rural, speak some 225 languages and assorted dialects of each. No receiving sets are manufactured in India, and a 50% duty makes their import prohibitive. Finally, electric power is scarce and only battery sets can be generally used...
...England's polyglot labor he heard from a rich, sardonic old Yankee in Groton...
William Gerhardi, a polyglot Englishman who was born in Russia, has written novels, short stories, a play, a critical biography of Chekhov. He is perhaps most widely known for his novel The Polyglots. Last week he added to his list a long (484-page), glittering, malicious, at times staggeringly funny history of the Romanov dynasty. Subtitled Evocation of the Past as a Mirror for the Present, it is a profuse record of peculiarly dizzy people in a peculiarly dizzy part of the world...
...Nerger's book on his raiding exploits was not generally known outside Germany. The first account in English is by one of his prisoners. Roy Alexander, an Australian wireless operator, spent nine months in one of the two mine compartments which served as brig for the Wolfs sardined, polyglot prisoners (100 when he,arrived, 400 at the peak...