Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nazi Propaganda Ministry endorsed the old German nationalist movement for Sprachreinigung (language purification). Soon Verdeutschungen (Germanized words) began to appear officially. Radio was changed to Rundfunk, Telefon to Fernsprecher, Automobil to Kraftwagen. The Relativitdtstheorie of famed refugee from Nazidom, Albert Einstein, became Bezuglichkeitsanschauungs-gesetz (relativity perception...
Last week in Moscow, Communist Mother Russia trod briskly down the trail blazed by Herr Goebbels. The Soviet Academy of Sciences decided to thoroughly Russianize the Russian language, which is liberally endowed with words borrowed from French, German and English (samples: khuligan-hooligan, trolleibus-trolley bus, stend-stand. "In most cases," said Academician A. M. Terpigorev, "these foreign words can be substituted by Rus sian words ... A scientific terminology cluttered with foreign words is intolerable." While the Russian language was going nationalist, it was also going imperialist...
Studious men will find the library filled with texts, reference books, and fiction, French, German, economics, history, and pre-med scholars gather in the dining hall and common rooms periodically, to discuss their fields. In addition to a large and varied collection of classical records, the House boasts, more than $800 worth of jazz discs...
...Hicks House. This is a revolutionary-age abode that has been joined onto the House so that its 10 separate rooms could be used as places of seclusion for Kirkland men in their studying moments. Almost every room houses a separate field of books--those of history, French, and German, being particularly strong...
Music-lovers will find the largest lending-library of records in the College and a florishing music society, which produces the famous Lowell House operas. Scholars will find a 12,000-volume library, which is especially strong in classics, French, English, German, and the arts...