Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years-fearing that it would become just one more platform for anticolonialist tirades-European colonial powers had opposed setting up a U.N. commission for Africa like those already in existence for Asia, Europe and Latin America. Not until last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally establish the E.G.A. headquarters in Ethiopia, oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards...
Gringo is a term used by some Latin Americans, often in a derogatory sense, for U.S. citizens. About 12,000 live in Cuba...
...executions, the State Department held to a policy of nonintervention. Asst. Secretary of State Roy Rubottom, who is in charge of Latin-American affairs, declared, "We are not going to intervene in what is essentially Cuba's affair...
Because Humanities 2 is to be bracketed, the Committee on General Education is sponsoring a new lower-level Humanities course, as yet unnamed, based on "dramatic literature." William Alfred, assistant professor of English, and Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Greek and Latin, will lecture. The new course, not intended to replace Humanities 2, may be given in alternate years...
Permit me to contradict the statement that I "flunked" my Cambridge entrance in Latin the first time and "barely squeaked" in on the second [Dec. 22]. The truth is that I managed it the first time, as anyone with the merest suggestion of intelligence could. At the level required, the subject matter is necessarily restricted to archaic absurdities that can no longer inspire the young mind, if they ever could: "The sailors sacrifice the bull on the altar of the immortal gods!" This is the sort of bull we have got to be prepared to sacrifice...