Word: flavius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flavius Vegetius Renatus, 4th Century Rome's George Fielding Eliot, propounded one of history's catchiest slogans "Si vis pacem, para bellum" (If you want peace, arm for war). During the days of fitful peace that followed World War II, mankind still clung tightly (but with imperfect confidence) to this maxim. All over the world, March brought martial demonstrations of preparedness...
...never-ending tug-of-war in the Semitic mind between nationalism (atavistic) and internationalism (idealistic)-a nub made spiny with the misunderstandings that this cryptic conflict causes in whatever alien community it takes place. Author Feuchtwanger has embodied this struggle in the character of First-Century Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus (The Jewish War), historical hero of the fictional trilogy of which Josephus and the Emperor is volume three...
Hennen Jennings scholarship to Leonard D. Jaffe, of Brooklyn, N. Y., candidate for S.M. M.I.T. '40. Flavius Searle scholarship to Robert P. Burden, S. M. '40 of Medford; Charles Storer Storrow scholarships to Joseph N. Ball Jr. '40 of Philadelphia, Pa.; Charles T. Morrow, S.M. '38, of Gloucester; and Maurice A. Reidy Jr., '40, of Newton Highlands...