Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of accepting the scholarship offered to him by the University of Virginia, Strauss set out to sell shoes for the family firm, headed southward with volumes of Latin poetry-Virgil, Ovid, Horace-packed along with his samples. After four years in the shoe business, he took a train to Washington in 1917 and offered his services as a volunteer worker for Herbert Hoover's Belgian Relief Commission. Drawing no pay (he skimped along on his savings), Strauss worked for Hoover for 2½ years, first as a sort of office boy and then as secretary ("My jewel...
Invited to dinner early in his Kuhn, Loeb career by Partner Jerome Hanauer, Strauss offered to help Hanauer's pig-tailed daughter Alice with her Latin homework. He made some mistakes in translation, as Alice found out in class next day, but she apparently forgave him. In 1923, when she was 18 and he was 27, they were married. The Strausses have one son, Lewis H., 35, a Baltimore physicist, and three grandchildren...
Austin B. Mason prizes were granted to Robert H. Stewart 3G and Paul G.M.J. Van Ael 1G for outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics. Michael D. West '59 received the Lewis Curtis Prize for excellence in Latin...
...trustees include: Charles A. Coolidge of Belmont, Mrs. John M. Bullitt of Cambridge, Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, Mrs. Douglass D. Bond of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and Mrs. Albert K. Mitchell of Albert, New Mexico...
...farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author (The Art of Teaching) and classicist who teaches Greek and Latin at Columbia University. It took him a week to translate the play's six-beat Greek iambics into six-beat English iambics...