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...Solution? Last week, with circulation past the 20,000 mark, Latin letters were pouring in to Acta's office at the rate of 200 an issue. Readers from six-year-olds to greybeards had the usual complaints. Poppaedius, said one, was "sordidum, plebeium . . . indecorum," and some fretted because a puzzle solution was omitted ("Quid? Nulla solutio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Soon: Cleopatra | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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