Word: saxonizes
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...Latinists, England's plowboys spoke an English which was chiefly made up of forceful Saxon words, a fact which may well explain the failure of more modern translations to approach the strength and eloquence of the King James version. Scholars estimate that the King James version is more than 90% Saxon...
...common language among all nations has been put out by Ivor Armstrong Richards, head of Harvard's Commission on English Language Studies. Basic English and Its Uses (Norton; $2) says that the greatest number of arguments against this simple language do not commonly come from persons fearing Anglo-Saxon expansion but from supporters of languages that are not natural, such as Esperanto...
Referring to the discovery of the sarcophagus supposedly containing the bones of Sweyn (TIME, July 19), it seems opportune to point out that the Saxon king defeated by Sweyn was Aethelred the Unready (or Redeless...
...biggest scapegoat was still the Anglo-Saxon enemy. To Allied promises to deal fairly with a non-Fascist Italy, the Duce replied: "Whoever believes in the enemy's suggestions is a criminal, a traitor and a bastard. . . . The enemy would disarm Italy down to her very sports guns. . . . Italy would become a geographical feature. . . . At this formidable juncture the Party must be the moving force of the nation's life...
Summer Session Director Harry Morgan Ayres oozes satisfaction from every wide-open July pore. War or no war, gas or no gas, more than 1,500 courses taught by nearly 500 teachers, plus New York City's assorted lures, still have great drawing power. Greying Anglo-Saxon Scholar Ayres, who began teaching at Columbia in 1908, must combine the talents of a hotelkeeper, a national planner, a circus ringmaster and a conventual supervisor of morals. He does...