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"In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the..." — J. R. R. Tolkien
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
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