Word: ests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing in front of a huge slide picture of a Roman citizen, a Latin professor was putting his class through its paces. "Quid est?" said he, pointing to the Roman's eye. "Oculus," chirped the class. "Quid est?" continued the professor. "Pes," answered the class. Actually, the students knew all about pes and oculus already: they were Latin teachers of many years' standing. But last week at the University of Michigan, they did not mind starting from scratch, learning the latest teaching methods of a linguistics expert named Waldo Sweet...
Sweet builds up vocabulary by using slides. The "Quid est?" routine is only the beginning. "Juvenis oculum gerit" Sweet will suddenly say. "Juvenis pedem gerit . . . Juvenis manum gerit." Gradually the class begins to realize that "gerit" means "has"-until Sweet leaps ahead again. "Juvenis vestum gerit . . . Juvenis gladium gerit . . . Juvenis bellum gerit." By that time, the class realizes that gerit" has a whole "area" of meanings, from "has" to "hold" to "wage" to "wear...
...show, and even slapstick has charm in his hands. Rene Clair's direction keeps the pace fast and light, never dragging behind Chevalier's cavorting. Essentially trite in plot, Le Silence Est D'Or is still great fun, and the reason is Chevalier...
...Toast to Ike. Moscow was their last stop on an eleven-country flying tour of Europe run by James L. Wick, board chairman of the Niles (Ohio) Daily Times (est. circ. 3,634), with interests in seven other small papers, and part owner of the travel bureau that arranged the trip. (Last year, on a similar junket, Wick's group could not get into Russia, but he made headlines nonetheless by cabling Stalin and asking whether the world was moving closer to war. Stalin's answer: No.) This time, already in London and homeward-bound, they suddenly...
...year-old Soviet leader reportedly had a brain hemorrhage on Sunday March 1. News of Stalin's critical condition was flashed to the world by Moscow radio at 12:15 EST this morning...