Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fields offered, four were passed over completely by this year's Freshman class. These fields, all in the Humanities, are Greek, Latin, English and Allied Fields, and Germanic Literature and Related Subjects...
Required courses for four years at Bronx High are impressive: three years of math (most students take more); five years of the sciences; four years of English, four of social studies, and at least three years of Latin, Spanish, French, German or Hebrew. For students who are superior even at Bronx High, there are sterner courses in English, math and physics, biology and chemistry, leading to college admission with advanced standing. So far the students have taken everything thrown at them; last fall a tenth-grade biology class was fed a hard, one-year biology course in one semester...
...balance be tween orchestra, soloists and his acres of chorus. Actress Montealegre gave her reading with luminous conviction and a fine sense of tandem with the score. Both got an ovation before they hustled off to a party to celebrate the Philharmonic's departure on a seven-week Latin American tour. For Felicia Montealegre, wearing a cape and Gothic-style gown by Valentina, the most pointed appreciation came from her 2½-year-old when he spied her in costume: "Ah,'' he cried, "Superman...
...loan to pay for Soviet blueprints, equipment and technicians for a 1,000,000-ton-capacity steel mill. Credits for industrial development have been granted to Yugoslavia, Egypt, Indonesia. Russia last week signed a $750 million trade agreement with West Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS), has increased its trade with Latin America from virtually nothing four years ago to 8% of the area's foreign trade...
...American trade barriers. Chile last week was preparing to open sales talks with Russia because new U.S. trade restrictions have squeezed its outlet for copper. To make matters worse, the U.S. Tariff Commission last week recommended higher tariffs on imports of lead and zinc, which several Latin American countries export heavily...