Word: acad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux was calling for a song to make Frenchmen drink more wine. In dead earnest it posted a 5,000-franc ($300) prize for the best Hymn to the Wine of Bordeaux, with words and music, submitted before April 12 by a person of French birth...
...Norwegians and especially the Japanese think it is effeminate, many a modern Frenchman has abandoned the ancient & honorable Gallic custom of greeting friends with a resounding kiss on the cheek or jaw. So widespread has become the custom of shaking hands in France that last week the august L Académic de Médecine was asked for an opinion. Weightily the Academic considered, then over the voluble opposition of a youthful minority delivered these decisions: 1) the country man's hands carry fewer germs than the city man's, but 2) more germs change carriers during...
Last week, General Weygand presented himself as a candidate to fill the seat among the 40 "immortals" of L'AcadémÍe Française vacated by the late Marshal Joffre...
Boston Latin 81, 97: Phillips Exeter Acad. 12, 57; Milton Acad. 40, 23; Phillips Acad., Andover 24, 18; St. Paul's School 24, 20; Groton School 19, 17; Belmont Hill School 17, 7; Country Day School 16, 8; Cambridge High School 15, 14; St. Marks School 15, 19; Noble and Greenough 14, 9; Middlesex School 13, 18; Loomis Institute 12, 8; St. Georges School 10, 7; Roxbury Latin School 9, 5. Middle-town High 8, 2; Horace Mann School 8, 6; Choate School 8, 10; Tabor Acad. 7, 4; Thayer Acad. 7, 13; Worcester Acad. 7, 4; Avon Old Farms...
Author Frangois Mauriac, 42, militant Catholic traditionalist, poet, essayist, novelist, is a native of Bordeaux who went to Paris as a young man to lead the literary life. One of his books, Desert of Love, was crowned by the Académie FranÇhise. Other books: Thérèse, Destiny...