Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor-in-chief of the school yearbook, was class Commencement orator, was elected head of the Junior class, was Senior chairman of the school assembly, was business manager of the dramatic club, and was a member of the basketball team. He was first in his district in the national Latin contest of the American Classical League, was third in Illinois in a citizenship essay contest, won first place in a competitive county scholarship examination, won the local high school medal awarded annually by the National Honorary Classics Fraternity, and had high marks in various state and national scholarship tests...
...called Old Guard in the profession of medicine believes that medicine should continue to be shrouded in the mystery of the Dark Ages; and that the layman has no business knowing what it is all about. If the doctor hands a patient a prescription written in the best medical Latin, it is the duty of aforesaid patient to hotfoot it to the closest apothecary shop: have same duly compounded as the Great Man has ordained; and take T.I.D. [ter in die, "thrice a day"] strictly according to directions. Not his to reason why. His but to get well if Mother...
Vernon King, 13, of Salt Lake City recently titillated classicists by grouping some irregular Latin verbs with "u" stems into a ''fifth conjugation," making a plausible case for his "discovery." More versatile than most prodigies, he has also worked out an original demonstration of the fourth dimension (time). Bedridden since he fractured a knee playing hide-&-seek, he gets most fun out of chemical experiments...
...chiefs questioned his authority and seemed willing Italian allies. Early in the summer of 1895 Premier Crispi had called the new Governor of Eritrea, General Baratieri, back to Italy for a conference. Between them they decided that the time was ripe for a major move. General Baratieri, an impulsive Latin, seemed satisfied that the 15,000 native and Italian troops under his command were sufficient. He did not know that during his absence in Italy Emperor Menelik had made peace with the chieftains, bought from French munitions makers field guns that out-ranged the Italians' and was sweeping north...
...Latin shrugs greet any query as to where Papa Mussolini and Père Laval earned all that money. Both have airtight alibis...