Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their private car in Vienna Station, then slid comfortably off to be greeted at Hungary's border by deafening peasant cheers, repeated at every station. Alighting at Budapest amid such a wild ovation as only emotional Hungarians can outpour, Countess Ciano kissed a small Budapest lass with Latin warmth and cried, "This kiss means Italy's love for all Hungarian girls...
...police after many an adventure. The two young Icelanders finally arrived in France in 1871, by which time "Nonni" had discovered a vocation for the priesthood. He studied at a Jesuit college in Amiens, there entered the Jesuit novitiate, was packed off by his superiors to Germany to teach Latin, history, modern languages. Not until he was 56 did "Nonni" Svensson begin writing books about himself, but after that he wrote copiously: four volumes alone concerning his childhood, twelve altogether, which have sold 6,000,000 copies in 30 languages...
International Santa. The No. 1 foreign policy of President Roosevelt, that of the "Good Neighbor," has been interpreted by all Latin American regimes as weakening the restraint upon them of the Monroe Doctrine. In this respect there has never been in Latin America so popular an inhabitant of the White House as Mr. Roosevelt. This week hundreds of newsorgans could be found echoing Noticias Graficas of Buenos Aires: "No one speaks any longer of Yankee Imperialism. The power of the United States no longer causes fear. . . . Mr. Roosevelt's good neighbor policy has surrounded the United States with...
...outstanding awards for entering Freshmen, the George Emerson Lowell Prize Scholarship for excellence in both Greek and Latin, has been won this year by Tudor Gardiner, of Boston, and Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr., of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. Both students are graduates of the Groton School...
This prize is presented on the basis of a competitive examination in Greek and Latin set by the Harvard Classics department, and given each spring at preparatory School which offer both languages in the college course...