Word: unis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Robert Hutchins of the Uni versity of Chicago made a radio speech against the bill. He was convinced that the country was headed for war. And, said he: "We are morally and intellectually unprepared to execute the moral mission to which the President calls us." He saw the duty of the U. S. : to "show the world a nation clear in purpose, united in action, and sacrificial in spirit. The influence of that example upon suffering humanity everywhere will be more power ful than the combined armies of the Axis." The familiar cries of defeatist, appeaser, isolationist, rose shrilly...
...Yorkese, which New York Uni versity phoneticians have discovered to be the least popular type of U. S. speech (TIME, March 11), is the easiest for Dr. Smith to guess. He has identified Bronxites and Brooklynites at the drop of an r, located Manhattanites within a few blocks of their homes. Once he spotted the influence of a French school in a naturalized American woman whose accent sounded normally German to ordinary listeners. Dr. Smith has learned his trade from books and phonograph records, has more difficulty with the pronunciations of his native Baltimore than with New Yorkese...