Word: tige
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent Quebec court case, Judge Oscar Boulanger spoke his outrage at French-speaking witnesses who used English words for the parts of a car. Example: "le steering knuckle-arm" for la tige du joint de direction. Along Quebec roads, French-speaking motorists ask for "gas" instead of essence...
...program with no returns but pres tige (CBS knew that the program would lose the support of educators if sold to a sponsor), School of the Air gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...