Word: linguistical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself and, although the story was cited in the Papal Bull announcing Xavier's canonization, Brodrick does not believe it. ("It is entirely a matter of evidence.") Another legend: Xavier's reputedly miraculous "gift of tongues." Father Brodrick notes that the Basque saint was a notoriously poor linguist, not even fluent in Latin. But before visiting different groups of Asian converts, he would spend hours laboriously memorizing simple sermons in Tamil, Malay or Japanese...
...Ngoc Thanh was sent to jail in France; the King enrolled as a student officer (honorary rank: brigadier general) at the French army's school of cavalry and armor. His Majesty was a brilliant student. He returned to his people in 1947 an excellent horseman, an accomplished linguist and an enthusiastic driver of fast sport cars...
...least of Mrs. Roosevelt's effectiveness in the U.S. cause stems from the simple fact that she is a linguist. She has broadcast in German, Spanish and Italian. She speaks facile though slightly accented French; at the behest of the State Department last winter she not only delivered a weekly Sunday radio talk from Paris to audiences in France, Belgium and Switzerland, but was able to make the audience respond with a surprising volume of mail...
...encyclicals. Since 1920, when he found Communists among some Slovak immigrant parishioners, he has written and lectured about the dangers of Communist ideology. He has been a leader of the Liturgical Arts Society, an organization founded to raise the low level of religious art in the U.S. A brilliant linguist, he knows a dozen languages* besides Greek, Latin and Hebrew ("Those are normal...
...Oriental scholar and linguist, Allison is one of State's best-informed experts on the Far East, but lacks the drive of his predecessor...