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...Which Raleigh...
TIME errs in supposing that the letter in diversified spelynge (TIME, Nov. 15) purports to quote from the Elizabethan Sir Walter Ralegh, Rauleygh, or Rauley. It was written in 1898 by the critic who always spelt his name Raleigh and was later professor of English literature at Oxford...
...cock-simple way of simplifying spelling was proposed last week in the London Times. Arising out of a discussion of Basic English (TIME, Aug. 16; Sept. 20), a letter-to-the-editor purported to quote the great Elizabethan, pipe-smoking Sir Walter Raleigh, who spelled his name three different ways (Ralegh, Rauleygh, Rauley) but never Raleigh. "Sir Walter's" simple suggestion: spell any way you like...
...balmy spring night, but the thermometer read well below freezing. The thermometer, in a professor's backyard garden at Raleigh, N.C., was measuring the temperature of the sky. Together with an ordinary thermometer and an anemometer (to measure wind velocity) it was also giving an accurate forecast of local weather for the night...
After all the affairs of state were settled, the club was entertained for over a half hour by Mr. David McCord, editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, also a writer of poetry. He entertained with several readings by Keith Prishow, E.B. White, Dorothy E. Reig, Walter Raleigh, A. P. Herbert and several others...