Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...constantly urged the U. S. to avoid "entangling alliances," Bolivar was an internationalist, dreamed and wrote of a League of Nations with Panama as its Geneva. The real difference is that George Washington was a large, blue-eyed, red-headed Anglo-Saxon. Simon Bolivar was a small, black-eyed Latin. Both were born aristocrats, able generals. Both were friends of LaFayette, both wrote voluminous political treatises which have profoundly affected the courses of their nations. Washington secretly, Bolivar openly mistrusted and despised the common people. Both often led ragged, ill-equipped armies. Washington crossed the Delaware on Christmas night, Bolivar...
...worldwide crusade of prayer for conversion of Latin American Indians began, by the Pope's orders, the end of last month...
...celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums, two pianos and a harp. Bostonians, though for the most part baffled by Stravinsky's new designs, sensed their importance, wanted another hearing. More...
...handsome Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-94) "Father of Modern Chemistry," married a 14-year-old girl. She learned Latin so that he would not be ashamed of her, taught herself English to translate his articles. Gentle, smiling Mrs. James Watt, first wife and cousin of the steam engine's inventor (1736-1819) had continually to encourage her husband to work...
Luetkemeyer, who prepared at the Boston Latin School, will assume the manager ship in his Senior year and will win a minor "H", while Sullivan, a graduate of the Hill School, manages the seconds in his Junior year. J. H. Gaul '32 was recently appointed the first assistant and has charge of the team during...