Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain, which concludes special agreements without asking anyone's advice, should wish to limit freedom of action by others in the name of agreements of which she herself takes no account. ... A country where slavery still exists [Abyssinia] has every interest in being civilized by a great Latin nation...
...Assessor-Extraordinary of Sweden's Royal Board of Mines and for his invention of a device for transporting ships overland, he was ennobled in 1719. In Sweden's Parliament he pioneered in fiscal reforms and liquor regulation. He knew nine languages, was an accomplished organist and Latin versifier, mastered three crafts and dabbled in four others. Finally in 1744, aged 57, he began talking with angels and spirits...
Practically unnoticed by the U. S., a wave of clear delirious joy last week swept the entire southern half of the Western Hemisphere. The great Latin American States of Argentina, Brazil and Chile declared national holidays. In half a dozen capitals the voice of the crowd rang out in the winter air, "Firmose la paz," "The peace is signed." The bloody, three-year Gran Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay was over...
...fantastic theory of most Latin Americans was and is that the U. S. was behind Bolivia; Great Britain behind Paraguay. To complicate this nonsense, Englishmen and Germans rallied to the Bolivian cause, Frenchmen and White Russians to the Paraguayan cause...
...meeting, the Phi Beta Kappa procession will form at 11.15 o'clock outside the Hall and march to Sanders Theatre for the literary exercises, fifteen minutes later. In these exercises, open to the public, Walter Lippmann '10 will give the oration and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin, will give the poem...