Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genesis of the Chaco dispute was a 16th-Century royal grant. Ignorant of New World geography, the Spanish Crown granted conflicting titles to two audiencias (old Spanish territorial divisions). The Latin-American republics formed after winning independence from Spain generally followed the old Crown grants. From 1810 on the Chaco dispute smoldered. Although in 1894 a straight line was arbitrarily drawn to indicate the two borders, the controversy continued and in 1932 it burst into a declared war. No less than 18 attempts at arbitration of the dispute failed. The League of Nations once imposed an arms embargo...
Meanwhile, the college of the 100 classics had run afoul of its first big snag. Some immortal thinkers are out of print, others have never been translated from the original Greek or Latin. To rescue their imperishable thoughts from oblivion and make them available to its students, St. John's has had to make its own translations, print its own copies of such thinkers as Nicomachus, Apollonius, Lucian, Gilbert, Aristarchus...
...Latin Quarter" theme of new decorations. Good floor show and music of one of Ruby Newman's orchestras. Good dinners at reasonable prices...
Second Freshmen griddles meet the undefeated Roxbury Latin team this afternoon...
WASHINGTON--The United States will use the forthcoming Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru, as a forum to combat the spread of fascist and Nazi influence in Latin America through the initiation of one of the greatest campaigns to strengthen democracy in the world's history, it was indicated tonight...