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Word: sophonisba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mediocre!" The Conference accomplished nothing else last week, though speeches were reeled off on nearly all possible subjects. Only U. S. Delegate to make a proposal of any sort was Kentucky-born Miss Sophonisba Breckinridge, professor of Public Welfare Administration since 1929 at the University of Chicago. She urged progress in promoting international interchange of bibliographic material. After sitting through a committee session in Spanish on social problems, Sophonisba Breckinridge said: "I don't understand Spanish but I have heard those same arguments so many times before that it was quite nice, just like home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hungry Statesmen & Honest Press | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

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