Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually it is a question of what one expects from tutorial work. If the student wants no more than the A, B, C's, that Greece gave us our culture, Rome our law, Judea our religion, France our manners, and Britain our government, then the present system fills the bill. Under it the student is responsible for four out of five fields of history: ancient (Greek or Roman), medieval, early modern, and modern. Before his divisionals he will probably have taken four courses in his department, among which will be found History 1, valuable as a survey, but nevertheless distinctly...
...Rome last week the inventor of wireless asked a chance to address British radio listeners on the war, was turned down by British Broadcasting Corporation, wrathfully set out for London to confront members of His Majesty's Government with the fact that free speech had been denied to Guglielmo Marconi...
Italians rebutted as best they could last week against Sanctions. Dictator Mussolini, who some weeks ago persuaded fruitful Hungary, traditionally "Italy's bread-basket," not to join in Sanctions, last week signed a trade accord in Rome with the Hungarian Minister "to insure adequate food supplies...
...They" told Sailor Roosevelt wrong: first clipper to reach San Francisco was the Samuel Russell in 1850. *Route: San Francisco: Macao; Hongkong; Fenang; Delhi; Bagdad; Cairo; Athens; Rome; Marseille; Seville: Tangier, Morocco; Dakar: Senegal: Natal: Brazil: Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Miami; Atlanta; Dallas; Los Angeles; San Francisco...
...hats to be bestowed, ten will remain in Vatican City or Rome. No surprise was it that one is to go to the Pope's favorite secretary, jolly and well-beloved Monsignor Camillo Caccia Dominioni, papal Master of Ceremonies, who long ago was reported named a Cardinal in pectore-secretly "in the Pope's heart" (TIME, March 20, 1933). Others: Most Rev. Carlo Salotti, secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of Faith (missions); Monsignor Nicola Canali, assessor of the Congregation of the Holy Office (the Church's watchdog in matters of faith and morals); Monsignor Domenico...