Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Berenson, the world's foremost authority on Italian art, directed much of her purchasing, Mrs. Jack was not the kind of women to let her home be furnished by somebody else. Her trips to Europe were among other things, shopping jaunts. Piece by piece, she planned for a new home, a Venetian palace in Boston; by the time she was ready to break ground, she had filled a warehouse with columns, balustrades, gates, pictures, and the like...
...Vatican Press Office confirmed reports in the illustrated Italian weekly Oggi that Pope Pius XII had told of having a vision of Jesus Christ during his illness last December. The vision came, said Oggi, while the Pope was saying the prayer Anima Christi, just as he reached the words "In hora mortis mei, voca me" (In the hour of my death, call me). Added the article: "The Holy Father is certain that he saw Jesus and that he was not dreaming." Later Milan's Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper, reported that the Pope also had heard...
...sprinkled with black pumice, a sure sign of volcanic activity. As Professor Blanc reconstructs it, the earliest Romans lived in a moderately warm climate on the shore of a vast lagoon that.covered the present site of Rome. The Torre site may establish what has long been suspected by Italian paleontologists: that Central Italy is one of earth's oldest inhabited places. Confirmation of this theory depends on Blanc's efforts to find human bones to match the man-made axes. After exploring only a fraction of the Torre site, Blanc says optimistically: "This place is a kind...
...fourth official language. Still more significant is the increasing number of medical and scientific journals which are publishing a synopsis of each article in it. Other accomplishments include the publication of an Interlingua--English dictionary, containing some 27,0000 words, and grammars in English, German, and French. Spanish and Italian editions are forthcoming. And at least one university in the United States--New York University--offers a course in the language...
...derived from another linguistic family. In fact, Gode contradicts himself on this point in his Interlingua-English dictionary. Here he writes, "A word is to be accepted as international when its presence is with corresponding meanings--in at attested--in corresponding forms and least three of the language units, Italian, Spanish and or Portugese, French, and English, with German and Russian as possible substitutes...