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...Language. One way of proving that American English is distinct from English English is to cite the vast number of words which have meanings and philological derivations peculiar to the U. S. Last week the University of Chicago announced that Professor Sir William Craigie, since 1901 joint-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, had half-finished a compendium of such words, his Chicago American Dictionary, "the first historical dictionary of the American tongue." The task has already occupied him for four years. Professor Craigie, a thorough believer in the autonomy of Americanisms,* points out that "American inventiveness, coupled with...
...Adopted a joint resolution instructing the Secretary of Agriculture to print special reports on: 1) The diseases of cattle; 2) The diseases of the horse; sent it to the Senate...
Lingle's power apparently derived from his close friendship with Police Commissioner William J. Russell (since resigned), who held his position at the potent Tribune's pleasure-and who had a joint brokerage account with Lingle (at one time it reached six figures. Russell's salary...
...State Department, a war was raging in China with Reddish forces on one side (see p. 30), and more war threatened on the Afghanistan border just south of Eastern Russia. There thus seemed a good chance that the Martin planes for Russia would soon see service. A joint board of the U. S. War and Navy Departments had not found these considerations a drawback to the Martin-Russia deal. The White House denied having any hand in the matter or expressing any opinion thereon. But Mr. Stimson was impressed by the situation in the Orient and his alone...
...More cautious than many of these priests, the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo declared in their joint pastoral letter (TIME, June 16) that it would be a "grave sin" and the Vatican's White Book says that priests who exceeded this limit have been "recalled...