Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regional basis, a majority of 43 students come from Europe and Canada, 32 from Latin America, 6 from the Far East, and but I from the Near East. A breakdown by countries shows that Guatemala leads with 8 representatives, followed by Germany with 7, and by England and France with 6 apiece. No less than 13 countries are represented by one student apiece...
...idea has the advantage of simplicity," he stated. "Harvard now is unique among American colleges in its requirement of Latin or Greek for an Arts degree. If it continues much longer, it may acquire the flavor of a quaint custom," he added...
...Latin Energy. For well-heeled foreigners, Italy is the most comfortable of all the European countries that took part in the war. There is hardly a pretense of rationing. The whole country is on the black market. For the rich there are unlimited quantities of consumer goods-women's clothing, shoes, leather goods, etc. of the most elegant quality. The poor are badly off, but not any worse off than they are elsewhere in Europe...
From one of the great open-hearth furnaces poured a molten white stream-steel. The rolling mill clanked out the first structural shapes. A white-clad band struck up the national anthem. The Volta Redonda steel plant (not far from Rio de Janeiro), the most impressive industrial sight in Latin America, was officially in operation. Brazil's dream of industrial self-sufficiency was being realized...
...Freshman football squad has scrimmaged nightly under lights from atop Soldiers' Field Stadium in preparation for what promised to be a grueling contest with Holy Cross' Jayvee eleven this afternoon at two o'clock on the first practice field. Yesterday, the Yardling B team was downed by Roxbury Latin...