Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since no Argentine from the President down could have taken a step more likely to discredit Argentina than the promulgation of this decree, intelligent Argentines were left gasping in amazement. The highly literate and weighty newsorgans La Prensa and La Nation, models of Latin journalism and traditional adversaries on almost every issue, united for once and for three days printed editorials hurling against President Justo every weapon of argument, deprecation, criticism, sarcasm, invective and ridicule. They added that the decree flatly violates the Argentine Constitution's pledge of freedom of the press...
...Star Clusters) popular, his lectures non-soporific. At 20 he entered the University of Missouri, fell under the spell of Astronomer Frederick Hanley Scares and published, when he was a junior, a juicy paper on "Astronomy in Horace" with no less than 46 references to the works of that Latin poet. After a year of post-graduate work he went to Princeton as a research fellow in astronomy, made his abilities apparent to kindly Henry Norris Russell. With Princeton's Ph. D. in his pocket, Dr. Shapley went on to Mt. Wilson, taking with him his bride, Martha Betz...
Died. Annie Smith Peck, 84, teacher, author, lecturer, alpinist; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Onetime professor of Latin at Smith College, Miss Peck gave up teaching for mountain-climbing at 45, was known at 60 as the world's No. 1 woman alpinist, climbed Mt. Madison...
...prudent, patriotic, eloquent Roman genius, Marcus Tullius Cicero had the historical misfortune to live at a time when the more spectacular genius of Julius Caesar dwarfed all lesser men. Cicero's deeds have been forgotten, and he is remembered as the author of great models of Latin prose over which schoolboys still suffer. Last week Dr. George Chatterton Richards, offering a biography that called belated attention to the great orator's political virtues, tried to show the heroism and timeliness of Cicero's many middle-of-the-road perplexities...
...sound, like when some little distended vesicle is perforated." For the next 27 years Swedenborg made almost daily excursions through Heaven and Hell, heard the meaning of the Scriptures expounded by angels, spirits and the Lord Himself. All that he saw & heard he dutifully set down in 29 fat Latin volumes...