Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jungle Book which appeared in bookstores last week* started out to be Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey's account of his discovering the source of the Orinoco River (TIME, Aug. 10). But for a long time he had wanted to speak out about men, institutions and conditions in Latin America which have vexed him. His book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines...
...Norsemen did not do it for love. By admiralty law salvagers are entitled to a sum fixed by an admiralty judge. Papers filed in a suit to collect such a sum are called by sea-lawyers a "libel" (Latin: libellus, a little book). To get their money the owners of the Norwold filed a libel attaching the Arminda and her cargo. Judge Cochran ruled last week that since the Arminda is officially a warship belonging to a nation friendly to the U. S., the Norsemen could not libel the ship herself. He suggested that they file separate papers against...
...games have been added to the Jayvee baseball schedule, the first with Andover at Andover, May 7, and the second with Cambridge Latin at home...
...Carney, Melrose High School; "Reorganizing the English Curriculum under the Harkness Foundation," Mr. F. W. Cuchwa, Phillips Exeter Academy; "The Problem of the Staff Meeting," Miss S. F. Dawes, Quincy High School; "Improving Working Conditions for the Teacher of English," Miss A. P. Butler, Cambridge High and Latin School; "Correcting Reading Tastes and Habits," Mr. H. V. Coryell '11, Browne and Nichols School; "Can Teaching Ability be Objectively Measured?" Mrs. G. E. W. Foster, Somerville High School; "Can Marking Standards Be Made Approximately Uniform in an English Staff?" Miss A. H. Spaulding, Brookline High School; "The Problem...
...editorial entitled "Quem ad finem, O Catalina . . ." in this morning's CRIMSON had a peculiar interest for me, even though my Latin fails me. It so happens that I was host to Mr. Boyd-Carpenter and his fellow-debater during their two day stay in Cambridge. I may add that they came to me by that most uncertain of all routes--a letter of introduction...