Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driver: his Latin blood was up. The little man shouted Spanish curses that would have debased a Hemingway hero. Then he shot his car into reverse. The girl saw what was coming, jumped from her car and stood on the curb. "Policia! Policia! Socorro! Socorro!" (Police! Help!), she screamed. With a vengeful snarl, the Buick butted into the Oldsmobile's rear, slammed the back seat into the front" and shattered all the windows...
...books in its cubicles. A "faculty" of 25 fellows and 22 consultants (among them: Poet Karl Shapiro) constantly survey and "interpret" the library collections, tell the Librarian what to get and what to throw away, help visiting scholars. The library's strong suits (after U.S. life & letters): China, Latin America, music, prints and photographs...
...dealings to date with U.N., and U.S. dealings in the several peace conferences. But it stops, and should stop there. It does not extend to the vacillating and contradictory U.S. policy in China-which is now in a state of unanimated suspension-or to the policy in Latin America-now operating in a vacuum created by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...
Hackett will build the new school on a wooded Riverdale plateau overlooking New York's Hudson River. He plans to have 600 teen-age students: 200 from New York City, 200 from the rest of the U.S., 200 from Europe, Latin America, Asia. In ten polyglot residences he will mix them well, hopes to transform them into citizens of the world. Says he: "This won't be an international school. 'International' has bad connotations these days. We want to transcend nations...
James B. Horigan 2G received a $150 presentation as the Bowdion Prize for Graduates (Classics). The award calls for an original essay in Greek or Latin of not less than 3000 words with the topic left up to the entrant's discretion...