Word: romanized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them. But Latin is far from being the dead language it is usually called. It still has enough vitality and allurement to win scholars by its own powers. Thus the only course of wisdom is to kill the crippled Latin requirement, the last vestige of the tyranny of the Roman Empire...
...hundreds of beatification and canonization processes pending in the tribunals of the Roman Catholic Church, five made U. S. news last week...
While this change is worthy of praise, it is far more worthy of the flattery of imitation. the next logical, practical setting for a similar readjustment would be the History department. Under the present numbering one finds History 3 covering the Roman Empire while History 54 deals with the Beginnings of Christianity. There is no sequence, no order, no meaning to the numbering, and the situation is much the same as that in the English department before it rearranged its courses...
...would be impossible, however, to spoil completely so good a story as that of the career of Benjamin Thompson, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Subsequently a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. He was as quarrelsome as he was captivating, as erratic as he was able. He was first a Loyalist spy in the Colonies, then Under-Secretary of State in England, Minister of War in the court of Bavaria, founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the generally accredited discover of the theory that heat is a form of motion. He laid out the Englische Garten...
...business in anti-religious books and sex manuals, busies himself at all times waging guerrilla warfare against the churches of his Enemy. Legalistically Freethinker Lewis hardly ever wins a battle. In the New York courts where he does most of his fighting, the judges are likely to be good Roman Catholics or devout Jews. Last week the Enemy of God was again trying to have the law on his adversary, unsuccessfully as ever...