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...quartered in Mather Hall and mess in the dining hall with Company A. Of the 83, ten will go to Company C to study advanced engineering, while the other 73 will be assigned to Company D for the study of basic engineering...
Ogden went on to make up Basic, a language of 850 English words used in their chief meanings, half a dozen rules of use. The 850 words are in three groups...
...book giving serious arguments for a system of simple English as a 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...
...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...
...study will be divided between Engineering and the Advanced Phase of Foreign Area and Language. Army students for the Graduate School of Engineering have been awaited ever since the first group of trainees came in last June. They will probably split up into an advanced section and a basic section, with the latter leaning towards communications and the former specializing in civil...