Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin American comment which was not more than typically censorius appeared in the leading newspaper of Mexico City, Excelsior: "May President Coolidge sleep peacefully after the assassination of 300 Nicaraguans who committed the error of defending their country, violated by an invader...
...Joseph Zelli's justly celebrated Montmartre night club. Lieutenant Noville, rough, ready and with gay French blood in him was perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening for him in the Quartier Latin. Newsgatherers made life hard for Hero Chamberlin by treating Hero Levine, politely yet distinctly, as a large black fly in the ointment. Mr. Levine was a civilian and owed his place in the sun to being a shrewd, adventurous moneybags. His omnipresence in a company of aeronauts was grotesque, obtrusive, they...
...table and manipulate it. The "Made in Sweden" telephone is a one-handed device, weighing only a few ounces, combining the transmitter and receiver in a single mounting. Therefore, and because of their excellent quality, Swedish telephones have been very widely adopted for the newer installations in Europe, Asia, Latin America...
Thus, a competition to carry the U. S. public in the air looms between the backers of a 25-year-old Nordic, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who is everybody's hero, and the backers of a 41-year-old Latin, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, who is as obscure in the popular eye as he is small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane...
Amherst College, couched in classical traditions, announced last week its tenth president-Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease, for three years its professor of Latin. President Pease is not an Amherst man. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees at Harvard. He taught at Harvard, Radcliffe and the University of Illinois before coming to Amherst. He is less of a liberal than Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Amherst's eighth president; he is less of an administrator than Dr. George D. Olds, Amherst's ninth president. But, as a distinguished scholar, he fulfills the presidential...