Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the college's founding, stated that in the days when "dissipations were few and properly non-enervating . . . Harvard men were the men most sought after because they were known to address their companions in Latin when the spirit moved them...
...home to find their parents less enlightened, they begin to worry about them. They think in global terms-about Indonesia, Liberia and Main Street. So many wanted to learn about Russia that the college set up a Russian department. The classics major is just about extinct (one major in Latin last year, none in Greek). It is the time to be a social scientist and to be haunted by the woes of the world...
...father, Alfred Chapin Clapp, was an insurance broker of East Orange, N.J., He was a kindly man with a small goatee and a frock coat who quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
...committee was impressed when Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan marched in with an armful of facts & figures on how well a program of industrialization with U.S. techniques and capital had been working in Latin America. Brannan brushed away the possibility that industrialization of backward nations would only build up competition for U.S. goods. "Only the developed areas," said he, "are good customers. [Developed] countries making up only 11% of the world's population are providing us with more than half of our market...
What intensifies this particular difficulty, Professor Harris believes, is that devaluation in other countries will cut Britain's chances of increasing sales outside of the United States in the Latin American and sterling area markets. "Consequently I'm not overly enthusiastic about devaluation, because there is so much else that must be done...