Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following prizes were recently announced: to Robert J. Maddox 2G, graduate Bowdoin Classics award, for his original essay in Attic Greek entitled "Plato's Attitude to Poetry in the Republic": and to Jordan Arsogion honorable mention, the undergraduate Bowdoin Classics award, for his translation into Greek. There was no award for the graduate or undergraduate prize for Latin...
...Stalin on the unique significance of World War II: "This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise." - On the Red-supported Greek civil war: "The uprising has to fold up. What do you think, that Great Britain and the United States-the most powerful state in the world-will permit you to break their line of communication in the Mediterranean Sea! Nonsense. And we have no navy." Djilas' personal impressions of Stalin confirm...
...Greek Money, a chestnut colt that had not won a major stake in its three years, the 86th running of the Preakness Stakes by a nose over high-rated Ridan; at Pimlico. Odds: 11 to 1 in an eleven-horse field that included Kentucky Derby Winner Decidedly, which placed a dismal eighth...
Married. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 24, son of Spanish Pretender Don Juan; and Princess Sophie of the Hellenes, 23, eldest daughter of Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika; in consecutive Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox ceremonies; in Athens (see THE WORLD...
...anthologist and founder of the American Library in Paris, a onetime printer's devil who left nothing to chance in his meticulously compiled Home Books of quotations, verse, proverbs and maxims -a lifelong opus of more than 30,000 pages-marked by artful delving into literary sources from Greek preachments ("Abstain from beans"-Pythagoras) to English epigrams ("Tell it to the Marines"-Charles II to Mr. Samuel Pepys); after a long illness; in Chillicothe, Ohio...