Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently members of Parliament's Press Gallery, unable to believe their ears at foreign policy debates, suggested that perhaps there was something wrong with House of Commons acoustics. In Commissioner Ramsbotham's favorite language, Latin, they invited him to break Parliamentary rules,* come up and listen. His department could authorize repairs, if needed. Commissioner Ramsbotham accepted, listened for an hour. Said he (in letter-perfect Latin...
American Offstanders. All the Latin American nations* had their manufactured imports from Europe reduced to a small fraction by the exigencies of war, and were forced to buy from the U. S. How this affected them depended on what they had to export...
...Eight Latin American countries declared war in 1917 and 1918: Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. But practically speaking none of them took part except economically...
...afternoon last week Donald Campbell, young Edinburgh University Latin Lecturer, and his wife, returning from a Paris honeymoon, stepped up to the check room in London's crowded King's Cross Station. From beneath the counter came an explosion that destroyed the check room, burst suitcases and trunks, bowled over scores of passersby, stripped the clothes from two women. As the clouds of choking, acrid smoke rolled away Donald Campbell, both legs blown off, lay dying. Sprawled around him, 15 wounded men and women, including his bride, fed the bloody pools gathering on the cobblestones...
...demanded minority representation, applauded, jeered. When the uproar was over, tough Charlie Hardy announced the results of the annual election: the management slate had been reelected. Extent of its support: more than 60% of the 589,150 eligible shares. Oscar Cintas picked up his umbrella and walked out with Latin disdain...