Word: caelestium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funny praises in Latin, described Macmillan (Greats, 1919) as an "imperturbable Scot" who "watches the signs of the sky most attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante omnia ursam maiorem, quae caelestium choro progeniem blantem nuper immiscuit.") Less vividly, Gaitskell (Mod. Greats, 1927) was hailed as a debater who "does not shirk the task of leadership when the free world is at stake...
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