Word: latinate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the Glee Club and IGP performed, HACIA sponsored its annual government simulation conference for high school students throughout the Western hemisphere. The group's focus is Latin America...
...Latin America hasn't had democracy for very long and teaching young people about the process is vital to it's success," he says...
...while in this way Lenin may be the central actor who begins the 20th century, he is the least knowable of characters. As a boy growing up in Simbirsk, Lenin distinguished himself in Latin and Greek. The signal event of his youth--the event that radicalized him--came in 1887, when his eldest brother Alexander, a student at the University of St. Petersburg, was hanged for conspiring to help assassinate Czar Alexander III. As a lawyer, Lenin became increasingly involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading...
Biggest blunder: Somewhat unlawful meddling in Latin America...
...Neil [Rudenstine] had come to me and said we need this amount of funds [$20 million] for the library, for scholarships, or for Latin and Greek videotape projects, I would have had equal motivation [to donate]," Knafel says...