Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clarence H. Haring, '07, as Robert Woods Professor of Latin American History...
...first barred. Then Ethiopian statesmen, largely inspired by Prince Tafari, began yielding deceptively to French and Italian efforts to obtain more important concessions in the empire than had ever been granted before. In 1923 the French and Italians congratulated themselves that a most profitable and pleasant era of Latin-Ethiopian co-operation and economic exploitation was about to open with mutual goodwill. To top off the deal with pink icing. Ethiopia at Latin insistence was admitted to full membership in the League. Only three years afterward Tafari, who had become Regent, complained of Britain and Italy to the League, having...
...gold rings, the day's total for all Italy being computed later as worth $80,000,000. Among the wives was the Dictator's. Millions of Italian women, unlike their Queen, reacted first to their new iron rings by at once trying them on. Since the warm Latin temperament packs super-sentiment into one's own particular wedding ring. Italians who could afford it pack-jammed every jewelry shop in the Kingdom to buy new gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures...
...Venezuela was one of few countries in the world last week with a balanced budget and a treasury surplus. Not a single foreigner owns a Venezuelan government bond and her money is the soundest in the world. Venezuela claims to have the finest highway system in Latin America, built entirely since 1912 and largely by the forced labor of political prisoners. Farmers pay no land taxes at all and may borrow up to 50% of the value of their land from a government farm bank. Caracas has been rebuilt. School attendance has been upped 300%. There is little...
Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...