Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this Uruguayans can partly thank the pastoral plenty of their purple land. A year ago, things did not seem so good. Uruguay had lost $69 million in foreign exchange in a year. Wool, the chief commodity Uruguay could sell directly for dollars, was not so plentiful in Uruguay in 1947. Now she has a bumper wool crop and a wheat crop big enough to pay off earlier borrowing from Argentina and leave some wheat for export...
...Trend. While Uruguay has been finding a way to live in comfort, something else has been going on. Under President Berreta, who died a year ago, and even more under President Batlle, Uruguay has been moving gradually towards a moderate socialism...
...council chambers. But it had lately been joined by Sir Edwin Landseer's sidesaddle version, and local school authorities were raising holy Ned. Children just should not be exposed to such a thing, they protested. Their objection: the sidesaddle was unknown in Godiva's day, 900 years ago; the children were being given an entirely erroneous impression of history...
...approach the question, the Archbishop of Canterbury 32 months ago appointed a 13-member commission, headed by the Rt. Rev. John W. C. Wand, Lord Bishop of London, and including two lawyers and six doctors. Last week their conclusions were in: artificial insemination was permissible when the husband was the donor, but not otherwise...
When enlightenment first came to Gautama Buddha, 2,400 years ago, he was sitting under a Bo tree. Buddha's tree has been an object of reverence, ever since, and its offspring still stands amid ancient ruins at Anuradhapura, Ceylon, where it was brought in 246 B.C. Among Buddha's 150,000,000 followers word was spreading last week, however, that the sacred Bo was withering, and the prognosis looked bad. Adoring pilgrims knew only one thing to do: as generations of them had done before, they poured gallons of milk around its trunk...