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Word: academia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nationalists were unmoved. Said Dr. Alejandro Quijano, president of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua: "My heart grieves at these dangers. New words, new ideas we welcome. But we want no bastard words from beyond our borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Vachacarro! | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Even the Protestants of Switzerland had something to paste in their books. The day before the canonization, fashionable Rome turned out to hear the municipally supported Academia de Santa Cecilia sing the oratorio, Nicolas de Flue-words by Swiss Protestant Denis de Rougemont, music by Swiss Protestant Arthur Honegger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swiss Saint | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...There is also an untested 849-word Basic Chinese, developed recently by Professor Chao Yuan Ren of China's Academia Sinica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Globalingo | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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