Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Latin American department was off base in its comparison of the Portillo Hotel in Chile with our famous Sun Valley [TIME, Sept. 15]. You say the cost per person at Portillo Hotel is $9 a day with meals, while Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 per day without meals, with an inference that this cost is the lowest rate. This is definitely not correct. The lowest rates at Sun Valley Lodge last winter for single occupancy in bachelors' quarters were $6.50 a day without bath. . . . The rates at the Portillo Hotel range upward from...
Third in magnitude is English with 454 majors and fourth is the one-year-old Social Relations, followed at some distance by Latin, Greek, War Service Physics, and Semitic Languages with 2, 2, 1, and 0, respectively...
...Wallace decided to slash the price, make up the difference by taking ads. This was tried in a Spanish-language edition for Latin America in December 1940. It sold so well (it now guarantees 1,000,000 circulation) that the Digest has followed it with 13 other editions* in eight different languages. The editorial content is the same as the U.S. edition (circ. 8,000,000) but more so: it is further digested, to about two-thirds the domestic size...
Meanwhile the Freshman "B" squad started the season yesterday by downing a Roxbury Latin School eleven 12 to 0. An off tackle plunge by Andrews in the second period and a quarterback sneak by Tomasello scored the two Crimson tallies...
...blue period to be his best until yesterday, when I went to the Grimaldi Museum. ... I had seen quite a bit of Picasso in Paris this winter. When I asked him to come to America and told him about the money he would make there, he shrugged his expressive Latin shoulders, saying, 'Elsa, I hate the sea and I hate money, and I have been working in the Museum at Antibes on what I believe is my best work...