Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman missed no chance to let the boys know that bygones were bygones. Displaying some herniated Latin at a dinner for Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, Truman mentioned the old Roman cry: "Delenda est Carthago!" (Carthage must be destroyed). Some Senators had cried "Delenda est Trumano!"-said the President, but "I am happy to say that I have no ill feeling towards those gentlemen who would like to have delenda...
Although, to the Western scientist, the technical side of production may seem easy, it is enormously difficult to the larger part of the world. Throughout Asia, Africa and large parts of Latin America, production and living standards are dangerously lower than in the U.S. and Western Europe. As India's Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar put it during M.I.T.'s panel on "The Problem of Underdeveloped Areas": "Here are great areas that can fall victim to communism, for what better material for communism is there than people who cannot even sustain themselves...
Cavanaugh, freshman second baseman last year from Roxbury Latin, is the only new face in the infield. Dunn started the 1948 season with the varsity, was moved down to the jayvees, and then was promoted again in time to play in the Yale game. Maunino played short-stop until he was injured midway in the season. Cavanaugh replaces Myles Huntington, out for the season with a broken collar bone. Coulson has lost about 20 pounds since last season and will be a vastly improved fielder...
...enough money for more than one of us." Carrying the theory a step farther, he has decided that his big shows are too much of a drain on his customers' resources, week in & week out. He has just begun a policy of alternating three weeks of Latin movies with a week's "live" presentation. "Now," says he, "the stage shows will really be fantastic...
...many Americans, Trippe's given name sounds vaguely like some foreigner's; to many Latin Americans, the Juan sounds vaguely like some countryman's. Both notions are wrong, although the second has had its subtle advantages in his diplomacy south of the border. The name came from his Aunt Juanita Terry; he speaks neither Spanish nor Portuguese. He comes from a long line of Marylanders, one of whom fought in the battle of Tripoli...