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...Case librum (XLI paginae) exhibuit classi suae discipuli librum amaverunt. Vere, alii magistri hoc cognoverunt, et sex aliae scholae intendunt eo libro uti in classibus Latinis hoc autumno. Unus discipulus dixit: "Disciscopia verborum dum legis atque in fabulam intras. Fortasse ego ipse novos eventus de Daimone scribam. Tamennescio num quidquam praeterea sit quod Daimon facere debeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Daimon Omnia Vincit | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...real and synthetic-is everywhere on Kauai. At the Coco Palms, surrounded by Hawaii's largest coconut orchard, conch shells are sounded each evening, while runners race through the darkened groves, whirling their flaming torches and lighting up flares, just as they did in the courts of the alii (chieftains). The Hanalei Plantation (opposite), which includes a 20th Century Fox set designer's re-creation of a Hawaiian monarch's palace, overlooks the beach where Mitzi Gaynor washed that man right outa her hair in South Pacific. Owner Lyle Guslander, who has built hotels on all three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: On to the Outer Islands | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

After reading your recent stories on Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, et alii, I'm delightfully convinced that we have again that rare phenomenon: government of adults, by adults, for adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...potato famine provided a dramatic opportunity for the first suggestion. The scientists offered the Indians fertilizer, bug killer and a better strain of potato seed. The "medicines for the soil," as Cruz desc-ibed them, grew potatoes four to eight times bigger than Vicos had been producing. "Kcmi alii, kemi alii," said Cruz-''Very good, very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Experiment in the Andes | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or king of the celebration, attended parades, parties, sports events, suitably attired in scanty trunks, a long yellow cloak and a bright-colored helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Something Old, Something New | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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