Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...availability of fine English woolens. U. S. fabricators, fearing increased imports from Britain, took alarm. The U. S. cotton market jittered as Bombay prices cheapened in relation to domestic ones. Alarmed too were some U. S. exporters who compete with Britons in foreign markets, especially when the British & Latin American Chamber of Commerce, meeting in London last week, announced a new drive for exports (a drive in which a cheap free pound could be a convenient weapon...
Here is where the classics come in. But it is a mistake to think of the classics only in the dead-languages sense; Latin and Greek are in the curriculum of the first two years only, along with a stiff dose of science. Languages are studied for the mental exercise they give, and most of the works are read in translation. A classic then means an original and irreplaceable work of human thought...
Dance La Conga (Columbia). Four-disc set of congas played by the orchestra of Desi Arnaz, the supple Latin glamor boy of Broadway's Too Many Girls. An accompanying set of instructions by Arthur Murray is intended to show purchasers how to conga almost as well as Señor Arnaz...
...breezy drive and honest insight into immediate realities, Chamberlain does not plumb certain problems: how the U. S. can be sure of security in this hemisphere without some form of imperialist policy towards Latin America, how U. S.industrial production is to be increased except by a vague hope for some new "prime mover" such as the railroads once were...
...members of Professor Coolidge's committee are Kenneth T. Bainbridge, associate professor of Physics, William L. Crum, professor of Economics, Frederick B. Deknatel, instructor in Fine Arts, Merle Fainsod, assistant professor of Government, John H. Finley, Jr. '25, associate professor of Greek and Latin, and Frederick L. Risaw, professor of Biology...