Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever came of these and other recommendations, one thing was obvious: Latin Americans will get no dollar handouts on the Marshall Plan scale, and they might as well accept the fact. One Latin government had already done...
Five Years More. IIAA has also sponsored 41 cooperative programs for passing on U.S. know-how to Latin Americans in agriculture, education, public health and sanitation. Most of them, like Brazil's great SESP public-health program (TIME, Sept. 13), have contributed to Latin American development and have also served as striking examples of what could be done. All have been jointly financed by the U.S. and the cooperative governments. Since the war, many have languished for lack of funds, but this week President Truman urged Congress to give IIAA a $50 million transfusion-enough for five more years...
Chile was almost unique. Elsewhere in Latin America, the U.S. still faced the man-sized job of convincing yanqui-baiting nationalists that its heart was pure. Only when latinos came to look on the U.S. as their Good Partner as well as their Good Neighbor could Harry Truman's plan fully succeed...
William e. Hocking '01, professor emeritus of Philosophy. Percy Bridgman '04, professor of Physics, and Walter G. Muelder Dean of the B. U. Theological School will talk over the general topic Friday night in the Cambridge High and Latin School auditorium. Before Friday, four preliminary forums will be hold daily, in Now Lecture Hall to discuss this broad subject in terms of four limited fields of learning...
...certainly surprised at the CRIMSON editorial blaspheming the Latin or Greek reading requirements for House Candidates in English, as out-dated and worthless. The arguments used against the classical requirement are notably distorted: The defense of the requirement is not historical but based on the fact that the peculiar merits and universalities of the Latin and Greek languages are basic to the study of English. Certainly, the classics are excellent training for the serious student of English in vocabulary, Latin and Greek certainly were NOT the only non-scientific fields in the "olden-days", that time "wasted" on languages...