Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...