Word: mundum
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...started by disliking General George Marshall, his opposite number in the Army, though he later found much to admire in him. He bucked Secretary Frank Knox. He distrusted and openly fought Secretary Forrestal. He was proud to find himself a minority of one at an allied conference-"King contra mundum...
...sacrifice of national sovereignty, i.e., the national Socialist's sovereign right to plan as he pleased. No one could blame the Schuman Plan's supporters if they reached the conclusion that it had become a matter (in the words of the London Economist) of "Socialism Contra Mundum...
...viri doctissimmi societate sancta Phi Beta Kappa delecti primo mane postea vos salutamus. Supra mundum plebrum perturbatum, tranquilli in lucis et veritatis contemplatione, tumidi erbriique noctu magno cum convivio recubuisti et de rebus omnibus lingua mortua maiorum orationem habuisti. Qui vella Chicagoensia tradit in eruditionis altioris mysteria vos initiavit. Soli ex omnibus filiis Yaleusibus discipulis rudibus demississque ubertatem verborem centum librorum pulverulentium commendatione dignorum a Roberto Hutchins exhausisti...
...Committee voted, however, 15 to 1-the U. S. abstaining and Germany voting contra, mundum- that "peacetime effectives" be understood not to mean "trained reservists" or war material to equip them, but to include "military forces under the colors, police, forest guards and any other such organization . . . available without measures of mobilization...
...verses "Harvardiensis Contra Mundum" and "Rondeau to Rob L. Stevenson" are decidedly...