Word: polyglotting
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...member of what a New York Times headline described as a POLYGLOT LOAD which reached Manhattan on the Holland-America liner Pennland last week was a certain Miss Joy Allen Duncan, 19, tall, hazel-eyed Virginian, chatty as a debutante about one of the most harrowing civilian experiences the war at sea has turned...
...newspaper days, the picturesque radicals and polyglot bohemians who were his friends, glow warmly in Hapgood's memory. But with the years some of his old friends developed a second nature which saddens him. Gertrude Stein, one of his first acquaintances in Europe, was once charming, filled with "a deep temperamental life-quality." Her "overweening ego" has now "made her life to my feeling ugly and her human relations and work ridiculous." Gertrude's brother Leo, once her idol, shared his disgust. Said he in a letter to Hapgood: "When Jesus said, 'Verily, verily,' the second...
...Barry Munnik Hertzog, who, with a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, fought for three years against Great Britain in the Boer War, guessed that his people would not want to fight for Britain in this one. For the Union is made up of four polyglot provinces, two Crown colonies and controls by League mandate a former colony of Germany's, and the outstanding element in its history has been the internal clash of nationalities-natives, Dutchmen, Britons, Germans-not its interest in Europe's troubles...
...Francisco was a jerry-built village with two hotels, two half-finished wharves, 800 inhabitants. That year James W. Marshall, a wheelwright, discovered gold in the tailrace of James Augustus Suiter's sawmill at Coloma. Twenty-one years later San Francisco had shot up to a polyglot giant of 149,473 inhabitants, a challenger of New York's financial might, a cultural threat to Boston. That year San Francisco went on a three-day spree. Officially it celebrated completion of the transcontinental railroad-"Uncle Sam's Waistband-He would burst without it." Historically it celebrated...
Obstacles to the scheme are many. A.I.R. has insufficient money for broadcasting, furnishing individual receivers, servicing them throughout India's 1,800,000 square miles. Polyglot India speaks 200 languages, assorted dialects of each.No one program would be universally understood. And lastly, Indians have the idea radio is a new device to boost taxes...