Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent barrister in England, pocketed close to $200,000 as his outrageous fee for counseling British tobacco interests how to deal with America's then rampant tobacco tycoon, James B. Duke. To celebrate he took a bride from Oxford. She, Margaret Eleanor Furneaux, dutiful daughter of a canny old Latin Professor, had obeyed her father when he told her to put off marrying Freddy some years earlier, "because one meets so many rising young men who never seem to rise...
Professor Edward Kennard Rand, professor of Latin, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...courses required for the two degrees, that it was considered illogical to continue the distinction in diplomas." As the requirements are now fixed at Harvard, the difference between an A.B. and an S.B. may actually mean no more than that one man has taken three years of high school Latin to another's two. Beyond this, the "bachelor of arts" may have taken as many as twelve college courses in Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Mathematics, and only two or three in "cultural" subjects, while the "bachelor of science" may have taken only one science course, and fifteen in Literature...
...campaign pledges, had fulfilled 34 of them.? He cited major accomplishments: i) The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act; 2) Federal Farm Board; 3) a I% income tax reduction (for 1929 only) ; 4) increased public construction; 5) increased merchant marine; 6) cruiser limitation under the London Naval Treaty; 7) improved Latin-American relations...
Like many another able man caught in similar "politics," Dr. Ochsner "got out" of the hospital, but not out of the University. When he conducted his classes last week his students cheered him lustily, as though they were civic-conscious Latin-Americans and he a politico...