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Basic Senses. Basic English is the discovery of Richards' old Cambridge Uni versity friend Charles Kay Ogden (TIME, March 12, 1934). When getting ready for the writing of their The Meaning of Meaning, Ogden & Richards made comparisons of the senses of words. In this process, they made use of some words again & again, came to the idea that the most important senses of language may be given in a limited number of words...
...attacks were immediately attributed to the reactionary-Catholic, pro-Fascist Unión Nacional Sinarquista, which has consistently fought conscription and urged collaboration with Franco Spain against the U.S. Labor's El Popular called the attacks a "new act of Sinarquista vandalism." Others remembered that less serious attacks last month in Morelos had been carried out under the Sinarquista slogan: "Take Away Your Military Service...
Time is of the essence. The plan needs only the approval of the Committee of Public Safety to be put in operation. Saul E. Joftes. Graduate Assistant in the Department of Gov- ernment, Boston Uni- versity...
...Stella S. Center of New York Uni versity last week told the National Council of Teachers of English meeting in Atlanta. Her complaint was not news to them. They had heard things very like it from parents and most of them knew it was true. Even Harvard has found it necessary to start a course in reading fundamentals for freshmen, each year has to teach nearly 20% of the class how to read its books...
Stretching its yearly budget of $75 to $315 by getting Illinois Wesleyan Uni versity as well as nearby Galesburg and Decatur to help out, the Bloomington Art Association invited top U.S. artists and galleries to send entries. Thirty-one bang-up paintings were submitted by such artists as Peter Hurd, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Fletcher Martin, John Steuart Curry, Aaron Boh-rod and Doris Lee. Bloomington's jury (headed by Chicago Art Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich) awarded a $100 prize to Raymond Breinin. Russian-born Artist Breinin's prize-winning picture was called The Night, depicted a somber, winged...