Word: prefixes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsitem under Miscellany re the Chicago search for ''hors d'oeuvres" synonyms interested me since every Chinese feast has a prefix of small variety dishes which one tries artfully to steer shy of. The only Chinese name for them that I can find would translate something like "Saucermites," "Midgettes,"-literally "tiny plates." Perhaps this nation's master chefs tried to find a name too, in former centuries, and finally showed the good judgment of giving the simple name they chose, letting the eater form his own opinion...
...Boston prefix "Chapter...
...higher title or power than that of general; whereas by the process of foregoing the title, the power may be vastly increased. The members of this family have always been uniquely international. When their vast Lorraine estates lay upon soil politically German they attached to their name the prefix von and turned their eyes toward Berlin: when the political frontier shifted under their rich deposits of coal and iron, they altered the prefix to de and looked to Paris...
This international hermaphrodites is not a now family trait. The son of Johann Georg von Wendel, who fought for the German Ferdinand III blossomed late Christian de Wendel, who was a follower of Charles IV of Lorraine. For a good period of years the family retained the prefix De; Christian's grandson, Ignace, was the true founder of the family's fortune--and this curiously enough, began when he established at Creusot the works that the Schuoiders were later to buy. When the Bastille fell Iguace's lose relations with the menarchy drove him from the country. His properties were...
...Sanskrit for one or first, is a prefix applied to the first undiscovered element in a group of the periodic system...