Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every clear evening a small group of devotees gathers around 6 p.m. in front of Lowell's J entry together with a Latin interpreter, who explains that these are no mere penny pitchers. They don't own chariots and they don't wear togas, but otherwise they have meticulously preserved the Roman tradition...
...provided a common meeting ground for the U.S.'s Philip Jessup and Russia's Jakov Malik when they began negotiating the Berlin blockade's end. Actually the job the Assembly had done was middling. It had (among other things) admitted Israel to U.N.; defeated a Latin American motion to lift the diplomatic boycott of Spain; again asked the Big Five to curb their veto. Perhaps the most significant measure-though it had little hope of success-was the decision to establish a committee to study ways & means of increasing U.N.'s efficiency, cut out unnecessary talk...
Franco tried to show that he was really a good democrat. In buttering up the U.S. and Latin America, he turned angrily on his fellow Europeans. "The European nations are so incapable, so old and so divided, and their politics so full of Marxism, passions and rancors," he said, "that it is natural for us to look toward America. The sea is no longer a barrier but a road to be traveled over ... In foreign politics . . . what counts [is] mutual understanding . . . and clean friendship on all sides, and so I will say, in the words of the song...
...year-old Frank Learoyd Boyden of Foxboro, Mass, did do. That fall of 1902, just out of Amherst himself, he took over the 103-year-old school, then partially town-supported, with its enrollment of 14 students. He taught every thing from Latin to math, coached athletics and served as town librarian on the side. The town soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday...
...years passed, other gifts and other boys came to the school. Many of the students were boarders from out of town. The little principal who had started 50 simply ("No one will graduate unless he can set a pane of glass, patch a faucet, and has a year of Latin") found himself getting famous. When the town's contribution to the school's funds ceased, in 1924, Boyden went out and raised money to make up the difference. Governors, judges and college presidents began sending their sons there. Though Deerfield children could still come free, the academy became...