Word: saxonized
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...losing its identity. He has seen most of its retail business taken over by Chinese, Eastern Europeans and East Indians. He has seen Jamaica Negroes, first imported to build the Canal, monopolize jobs on that waterway. He has seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence in English. Finally, he has found that the wage scale for his own countrymen is lower than the scale for aliens. Having...
...chaos which had engulfed much of the world by December 1940 was no more than a phase of the challenge to the world's two great sea powers, Great Britain and the U. S., and to Anglo-Saxon civilization. Through the disorder could be perceived the outlines of a new order-not the order of peace, but the final order of battle. The world was choosing sides...
...suspected that this might be the case, for it seems very logical that it should be so. (I am only surprised that the percentage [24%] should be as low as it is.) I do not base this opinion on the fact that the South is still more purely Anglo-Saxon than any other part of the country, and would therefore have the strongest emotional impulse to aid Britain...
Founded by Glenn Saxon '44 and S. A. Tucker '44, the Club's aims are to supervise all building at Harvard, especially the new library. Membership fee is ten cents, and sister chapters are expected to spring up soon in Wellesley and Radcliffe...
...north and almost 1,000 miles east of New York City lie the grim rocks of Labrador. In Labrador's brief summer they are spangled with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...