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...nation-wide publicity following British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's remarks about it in his Sanders Theatre address on Labor Day, Basic English, an international language formulated by Ira A. Richards of Harvard's Orthological Committee and F. K. Ogden of Cambridge University and London, England, has been acclaimed as one of the major cultural developments hastened...
...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...
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...
...finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...
...game was fairly close with the Crimson matching the first two Exeter goals with tallies by George Angle and Bill Guild, but the preppers slipped off to a two point lead again. A Red and Grey score by Sam Ogden kept markers by Nat Brackett and Dink Donahue from forcing a tie. The fourth quarter was scoreless. The winners attack was sparked by Winslow Smith and Sam Ogden, both of whom scored twice...