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Word: saxon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he eschews Latin-rooted words, clings to Anglo-Saxonisms almost as tightly as William Morris did, Author Linklater manages to give his bare and lusty chronicle an authentic primitive manner without ever putting the reader to sleep. Though his tale is at times reminiscent of the over-factual Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it lifts towards the end to a narrative as stripped and swift as a Viking long ship with the oars going all together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...professor of English, will give a half-course on English and American thought and expression from 1700 to 1800, to be called English 94. Two new half-courses which will normally form a full course will be known as English 25a and 25b. They will deal with Anglo-Saxon poetry. English 75, which was discontinued this year, will be given next winter by F. P. Magoun, Jr., '16, associate professor of Comparative Literature, and will stress the problems of the English language. Magoun's course on old English dialects has been discontinued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIOLOGY, GEOLOGY COURSES CHANGED IN NEW CATALOGUE | 3/21/1933 | See Source »

...afternoon last week at Wayne County Airport, near Detroit, three officials of Stinson Aircraft Corp. flew a new type Stinson tri-motor. The three were Chief Engineer Arthur Saxon, 29, who had been eight years with Stinson, helped design its first plane; his assistant, Samuel Benson; and Chief Test Pilot Owen Pinaire. With two tons of lead ballast in the cabin, they wanted to try the plane's stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Test Hazard | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...write English very well, the language is even less native to Ireland than it is to the U. S. The typical Irish writer wears his English with a difference. Racial bias toward tragic fancy, racial prejudice against successful fact give the Irish writer a peculiar angle on even plain Saxon themes. Author Stuart's theme is patriotism-which to an Irishman is partly like politics and partly like being in love. His tale, which starts realistically enough and wanders through dirty Dublin streets, ends toward the stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Falstaff | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

Bravely overcoming Anglo-Saxon prejudice, Admiral Kelly absorbed the piece of tail that was his portion, suffered no ill effect. A bit of the neck went to Chu Chao-hsin, Inspector General of Foreign Affairs in the Canton Government, who ate it with relish and promptly died. Doctors opined that he had swallowed a bit of "poisonous bone," doubtless poisoned by gland secretion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mr. Chu's Last Swallow | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

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