Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should the Mother Country antagonize so huge a buyer of her manufactured goods as Argentina by agreeing to buy Canadian in preference to Argentine beef? The King's subjects have invested over $1,500,000.000 in Argentina. Dare they antagonize that Latin American government? Dare they risk reprisals which could be launched against $1.500.000,000 of British property actually in Argentina? And what about Brazil? What about the Earl of Bessborough's own coffee-carrying railway in that South American state...
Bryn Mawr College classes of even years cheer in Greek (the "odds" in Latin). The College long cheer is in Greek, the short in Latin. And it is very probable that Yale and Bryn Mawr share no monopoly...
...called "androtin" from the Greek root andros (man). Dr. McCullagh made a water solution of the same extract, found it acted directly upon the pituitary gland (which androtin does not), and so concluded that he had found a new hormone. He called it "inhibin," from the Latin verb inhibere (to restrain...
...Latin master at Lawrenceville last week glanced over a paper, chuckled, went off to play golf. . . . Heat shimmered over a brick high school in Mobile, Ala. A proctor in academic gown looked bored, listened to the scratching of a couple of pens. . . . Perspiring Hill students finished a tennis match, trooped with a hundred others into a hall where they settled themselves noisily. ... In Paris a lonely student racked his brain, gazed vacantly from the Salle des Conferences in the American University Union at scuttling trotteurs and lazy cafe-sitters in the Boulevard St. Germain. ... In Ojai, Calif., a student hurried...
...very American, very Irish and very Catholic, but if he'll leave me alone. I'm just plain human." Died. Sherburne Gillette Hopkins. 63, international lawyer of Washington, D. C.; in Washington. He and his father, Thomas S. Hopkins, legally advised and directed many a Latin-American revolution. Among their clients: Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Adolfo de la Huerta, the republics of Georgia and Azerbaijan in their attempt to gain independence from Soviet Russia. His son, Sherburne Philbrick Hopkins, was Peggy-Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner's second husband. Died. Frederic Cook Morehouse, 64, editor...