Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dean of them. His technique is paternal, sometimes even benevolent. He controls police and press, brooks opposition for only 40 days before elections every four years. Yet, even when there is opportunity, few of Portugal's 8,500.000 fill the air above their lovely Latin land with cries for liberty. With a sedulously fostered reputation for financial wizardry, former Economics Professor Salazar has kept Portugal's budget balanced, but at the expense of workers, who are among the worst-paid, worst-fed and most illiterate in Western Europe. Yet, showing a strange political unconcern, the voters have made...
...inflationary blaze in Latin America began about a decade ago with a small, warm glow, fed by the best of intentions: to match the standards of the prosperous, industrialized nations of the world, to live the full, good life. The specific objectives varied by nations-large public works, social welfare schemes, high wages, more leisure for workers, local rather than foreign development of national resources -all adding up to what economists call "the revolution of expectations." But expectations outran means; relatively backward economies could not supply the standards of fully developed states. Strained for the means, nations turned to their...
Descartes believed the pineal gland was the seat of the soul, and doctors later thought it was man's third or inner eye. The pineal (from the Latin word for pine cone, which it resembles in shape) is a small gland attached to the midbrain...
...classical studies which would read the source materials in translation would fill a long and deep felt need. And it would have as much breadth--and perhaps more depth--than any course now offered in the General Education Program. At present, the extremely limited readings offered in Greek and Latin authors in the Gen Ed courses are among the most popular selections...
...addition, it must be remembered that these are Latin peoples; no matter how many superficial Anglicisms have been adopted, there is much more correspondence in temperament to the Latin-American peoples who surround them than to the conservative and restrained ways of the British...