Word: vergil
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Miss Ruutz-Rees put her girls through a rigorous classical curriculum, teaching them Vergil herself. She horrified parents, who feared their daughters might develop "unsightly muscles," by introducing athletics. First Rosemary sport was cricket, but Rosemarians could find no worthy opponents, took up basketball, track and field hockey instead. Now they play Yale freshman teams at hockey, once beat them...
...Conference's discussion was war: how to keep rising prices from skyrocketing, whether national defense would increase or diminish the supply of consumer goods. The most significant address had little concern with the war. It was a "preview" of 1940's census results (TIME, Sept. 30) by Vergil D. Reed, assistant director and bright idea man of the Census Bureau. He i) smartly summed up the effect of population shifts on distribution, 2) described the trends in retail sales (mostly up), 3) brought out facts from the first complete nose count of U. S. time-sales companies. Sample...
...Census, Director Austin and his bright idea-man Vergil Reed claim these improvements...
...Famed stammerers of the past: Aesop, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Vergil, Erasmus, Darwin...
...they had built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians and innocent of their later culture, sacked the cities and killed off the Volsci. About 600 B. c. they were first smitten by dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid and others, including Madame de Stael and more recently Gabriele D'Annunzio. Julius Caesar made elaborate plans for reclamation, Augustus and even Nero had vast labors performed, but in vain. The Catholic popes, notably that enlightened Medici, His Holiness Leo X, then took over...