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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esperanto is pronounced as spelt, with the accent on the antipenult. The "i" is pronounced "ee;" accent-marked consonants are aspirated. ?After Sept. 1, teaching of English will be compulsory in all Czechoslovak schools. German is already compulsory...
...have read your magazine from cover to cover and I was a great deal surprised when I came across (in the May 20 issue) my uncle's picture, Homer Guck. You stated that his name was pronounced "Guke," allow me to correct you, it is spelt Guck as in book...
...long been traditional for "Mike" to appear at Yale games with a small crimson flag given to him in 1908 by D. D. Haughton '99, after the University had defeated a powerful Yale eleven 4 to 0 on a drop-kick. This flag waved at properties moments has spelt source of confusion to Eli cohorts for the last decade...
...lying between the Residency at Cairo and Downing Street, a stream of dots and dashes spelt enigmatical words which were decoded rapidly by experts. Lord Allenby, rigid, hard, unflinching disciplinarian, was making demands and recommendations; the Cabinet was considering them. Then came a telegram: "Sir Lee Stack died tonight at midnight." Next morning a code message sped to Egypt; it was a British ultimatum...
...interesting to note that the same Jonathan Trumbull (he spelt his name Trumbull at this time) delivered the Valedictory Oration in 1762 when he came back for his Master's degree, and the library has the two letters which President Holyoke wrote him inviting and urging him to deliver the oration. These were received in 1905 from Mr. Grosvenor S. Hubbard of New York, great-grandson of Governor Trumbull. Mr. Hubbard also gave the library a few years later a manuscript containing Judah Monts' "Hewbrew Grammar" and William Brattle's "Enchtridion Logicae," text-books then used in Harvard College, with...