Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revealed that the Panama Canal Zone is now one of the chief headquarters of this international traffic. Portugal was stigmatized because the Portuguese law still allows girls as young as 14 years to be registered and licensed. The Mediterranean lands are declared the chief source of "white slaves," and Latin America is the principal consumer region. During the reading of the Committee's report-signed by its U. S. Chairman, William F. Snow-a member of the French delegation rose to protest the Committee's translation of tenancière into English as "madame." Tenanci...
...Colleges are steadily changing, though; at one time it was thought that Latin and Greek were absolutely essential. Now that stage has been outgrown, it is similarly qnite possible that in time the present college ideas on college education will change and adapt themselves to the money-making psychology which has such a grip on this country...
This discrepancy could not be ignored, and Republican news organs therefore poked much fun at the indiscreetly Latin conclusion of the Mexican President's letter to Senator Borah...
...foreign sales of face powders, rouges and creams have developed promisingly in Latin American countries, led by Cuba," the Society summarized. "Men as well as women in these countries are much given to the use of scents and lotions." Chinese women demand U. S. hair lotions and nail polishes. U. S. dentrifices are the best in the world...
...recent good will flight of the American aviators has heightened interest in the Latin-American republics to the south of us. For most persons curious in the world there is a peculiar alluring enchantment in any lands beneath the Southern Cross. Certain it is that there are few more fascinating stories than those of the rise of the nations of South America. At 10 o'clock in Harvard 2 Professor Haring will tell History 56 and the Vagabond of the genesis of the Argentine Republic...