Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrified to learn that this gesture, called cornuto, is a well-known symbol for cuckoldry in Latin countries-horrified because I had in my ignorance and innocence used the identical gesture as a gag in a forthcoming Donald Duck picture, The Hockey Champ...
First international support of the Student move to bring Latin-American scholars to Harvard came yesterday with the announcement that the Pan-American Union, through its secretary-general, Leo S. Rowe, would encourage the drive through official channels...
...Walker, treasurer of the Democratic Party in the 1933 campaign and member of the National Economics Research Board, had given the students his personal endorsement. Bringing 12 or 15 scholars to Harvard, Walker felt, is perhaps one of the most fundamental contributions that America could make towards promoting Latin-American friendship...
Bowditch's teaching record includes two years on the staff of the Shady Hill School in Cambridge while he was still in College, and two years as a Latin and English instructor of Milton Academy, of which he is a graduate. In 1937 he came to University Hall as assistant Freshman Dean...
Confidence in her sincerity is the United States' primary need in South America at the present stage of the game. While recognizing the commercial and political advantages of close relations with the "Colossus of the North," most Latin-American states are shy from bitter lessons of the past. This traditional distrust can be undermined only by acquainting the South American with the true nature of this nation, and such an acquaintance can be imparted by no better means than education in domestic colleges...