Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Catholic-Fascist party, decided at the last minute to use the occasion for a mass rally. Because royalty must be above politics, King Leopold and his entourage stayed at home while 5,000 Rexists rallied at the Death spot. Though Rexists take their name from the Latin Rex (King), they are not the King's party but "followers of Christ" (Christus...
...Lazare wrote a commentary on Spinoza's Ethics, translated Descartes' Meditations from Latin into Russian. He was still in his teens when he studied abstruse mathematical logic and published attacks on non-Euclidean geometers. Meantime he was playing music on the side, making up little songs and waltzes for his cousins...
When his parents lost their money in 1902, Lazare got a job tutoring Latin and mathematics. He won a scholarship to the Moscow Philharmonic Conservatory in 1905. Next year he lost it because of his revolutionary sympathies. He went to St. Petersburg and studied mathematics and music there, became a popular conductor of the University Chorus...
...subsequent debates scheduled: Jerome L. Gilbert and Rodman Gilder, Jr., Holy Cross, here, March 3; Victor C. Vaughan, 3rd and Paul W. Cherington, Boston College, March 8, away; Phil C. Neal and Robin Scully, Exeter, March 12, away; and Garfield H. Horn, Louis Hartz, and Jacob J. Kaplan, Boston Latin School, March 19, away...
...Named after the pyx used for the same purpose in the British mint. Pyxis, the Greek and Latin word for a box, derives from pyxos, the boxwood tree...