Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933. et seq.). The real trouble has been that the Peruvian Government, while not overanxious to keep the ravished province, found the rape excessively popular in Peru and for months did not know how to let Leticia go without shame to Peru's virile Latin "honor." Only the vast tact of President Olaya Herrera of Colombia and General Vasquez Cobo whom he sent to overawe the Peruvians in Leticia, made a settlement without undue bloodshed possible. Swamp fever did most of the killing. Tall, patient President Olaya Herrera and short, jovial General Vasquez Cobo embraced...
...eulogies of any desired length. He had practiced, he boasted, ten years to give his voice the correct hollowness of tone. When funeral fashions changed, and speeches gave way to flowers, Don Tomas tried vainly to meet the competition. He pared his rates four times. He threw in six Latin quotations free. He introduced a ten minute oration for $1. But modern Argentines continued to buy flowers, to shun Don Tomas' speeches. Last week Don Tomas died and was buried, with flowers, without speeches...
...York high-school students taking their regents examinations in Latin last week ploughed unhappily through the usual translations, conjugations and declensions, blinked when they came to something entirely new. To modernize classical study the State Department of Education had this year inserted a section of such posers as the following...
...reform politician. For gambling for gambling's own peculiar thrill he had no love. His speculations were for profit only. More than that he was a speculator on moral principle. His credo: "I am a speculator and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe...
...only the first year of his administration but his scientific achievement have given President Conant a place in Mr. MacKendrick's Latin address. Tributes follow to the Fellows and Overseers, the Deans, and Baby Deans, the faculty, the Governor, the honorary degree recipients, the alumni, the parents, the girls, and finally to his classmates...