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Word: latinizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refer to the statement: "Beginning with the admission that 'for some reason, completely obscure to me, there is an amazing lack of interest in the United States in Latin-American affairs,' Author Rourke gives facts that quickly answer his question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Greetings in Latin are shown from the Papal Academy of Sciences, the Royal Hungarian Peter Paznany University, and the universities of Leiden, Dublin, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, Upsala, Naples, Glasgow; and Carolina. For some the exhibit emphasizes the magnificent cases in which the messages were sent, many of them the finest examples of modern leatherworker's art, in red, deep brown, and blue, with gold seals embossed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONGRATULATORY NOTES NOW ON VIEW IN WIDENER | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

...Quinn '36, toastmaster; Charles A. Watkins '09, chief aide for the Associated Harvard Clubs Meeting; Nikita Elisseeff, of the University of Paris; Frank P. McInnis, of the University of Toronto; Ian Harvey, of Oxford; A James Copp III, of Stanford; and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tercentenary Draws 2086 Undergrads Exceeding All Preliminary Estimates | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

...composed chiefly of abstract words, it contains many U. S. technical coinages like airbrake, airline, automobile, autobus, autocar, autotruck. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A-to-Baggage | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...Quinn '36 will introduce speaker Edward A. Taft '04, president of the host Club, Nikita Elisseeff, of the University of Paris, Frank P. McInnis, of the University of Toronto, Ian Harvoy, of Oxford University, A. James Copp, 3d, of Stanford University, and Edward K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Presides at Alumni Gathering in Afternoon; Students Dine Tonight | 9/18/1936 | See Source »

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