Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Devaluation considerably improves Britain's changes of getting on her feet, Mason feels. "Exports will rise to the United States, and Britain will now be in the competition for the important Latin American market." Twin stumbling blocks seen by Mason are the possibilities that America will up her tariffs and that the increased cost of British imports may set off inflation in Britain. But still optimistic, Mason doubts that either of these two possible dangers will materialize...
...make a start, Oakeshott in 1946 got a promise of financial aid from the local school board and reserved 25 places at slightly reduced fees (?226) for boys from state-financed primary schools. But of the 40 examined, only three could pass the entrance exams, with their emphasis on Latin and Greek. In 1947, 25 were examined and none could pass: Winchester still had to draw its new boys from private primary schools. Last year again no qualified students were found among the state-school applicants. Oakeshott's proposed solution: better education in the government's schools. "Then...
...Translator. The man who has at last brought Cervantes' masterpiece to life in English spent 17 years directly on the job and a lifetime indirectly preparing for it. Samuel Putnam began translating in Latin class at Hoopeston, Ill. High School, was so good at it that he won a Latin scholarship to the University of Chicago. Ill health kept him from earning a degree but not from trying his writing hand at newspaper work...
Under his administration the Center was turned into a school in June of 1947, with day time classes in the Holy Scripture, philosophy, Church History, Greek, and Latin. It was around this time that the Harvard and Radcliffe Catholics Clubs stopped using the Center as a meeting place. They claim that, as a school, the Center no longer fulfills its original function...
...Benedict's Center under the administration of Father Feeney considers that it is doing a charity to those Catholic students who want to have the dogma of their Church clarified. "Students are too intelligent to listen to the mumbo jumbo of the interpretations--the saying of one thing in Latin and another in English," Father Feeney says. "They want their Church principles made as clear to them as the wording of the Constitution of the United States...