Word: grotius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Language and Literature: Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Lucian, the Old Testament, Horace, Ovid, Livy, Virgil, the New Testament, Quintilian, Dante, Volsunga Saga, the Song of Roland, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Rabelais, Corneille, Racine, Molière, Erasmus., Montaigne, Montesquieu, Grotius...
...from strychnine's cruel death during succeeding years and tests on scores of poisoned rabbits warranted a report last week that the soluble barbiturates (sleep-producing drugs, easily available everywhere) provide the long-sought perfect antidote to strychnine.* Drs. Gerald Fidelis Kempf, Joseph Thomas Carry McCallum and Leon Grotius Zerfas made the report to the American Medical Association. Lilly Laboratory for Clinical Research furnished the rabbits, Indianapolis City Hospital the patients, Indiana University School of Medicine the learning...
...seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
...flash the meaning followed, Freedom of the Seas! Grotius, writing twenty-seven years before the founding of Harvard College, established the ideas of the liberty of the sea, and the impossibility of its monopoly by any one-nation, a doctrine of far-reaching consequences. And being in a thoughtful mood, the Vagabond this morning will visit Harvard 6 at 11 o'clock, to hear Professor George Grafton Wilson give his interpretation of the significance of Grotius in the development of human history...