Word: paratus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these Government pamphlets, detailing problems that arose during the making of the first A-bombs, carries a thoughtful dis claimer: "Neither the United States, nor the [Atomic Energy] Commission . . . assumes any liabilities with respect to the use of, or for damages resulting from the use of, any information, ap paratus, method, or process disclosed in this report...
...nunc ipse in imo est, vobis ostentari paratus. Winnie ille Pu." Hardly the sort of prose one expects to read in a bestseller. But a bestseller was exactly what Alexander Lenard's Latin translation of A. A. Milne's classic turned out to be. Winnie Ille Pu sold 100,000 copies. On every reader's parsed lips was the question: Who was Translator Alexander Lenard...
...handkerchief, reeled around awkwardly before the court and fell back into the jury box. It was one moment that a casual viewer could appreciate. Last week came another one, as he told his little boy in flashbacks the story of the hours before the child's birth. Semper paratus, he slept in his clothes, dashed around like a nut, and smashed up his car in the driveway. A laundry truck had to drive his wife to the hospital...
...Marines of 1963 could match their counterparts of 1908. Shoup promptly promulgated plans for at least 20 officers at the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to set out this week in dungarees, boots, helmets and 24-lb. packs on the 50-mile, 20-hr. hike. Semper paratus, one 49-year-old lieutenant colonel got off to a head start, cut 6½ hours off the time limit. Kennedy indicated that if the Marines passed their test he would do something about measuring the fitness of his rather sedentary White House staff. His interest seemed to focus on Press Secretary...
...Latin. In Minneapolis, Municipal Judge Dana Nicholson proposed that Minnesota's lower courts be put on a circuit basis, offered the slogan "Gavelo donatus, circumire paratus" and provided his own translation: "Have gavel, will travel...