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Tobacco may be an evil weed to some, but to the farmers who grow it, "bacca" has long been manna. The golden leaf was the American Colonies' first profitable cash crop, and since the Depression the Federal Government has guaranteed farmers a rewarding price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Precious Weed | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

Most Mobral students seem convinced that if they can learn to read they will get better jobs. Arlene Silva Bacca, 29, a domestic servant who attends a center in Copacabana, has been studying for three months. "When I get my certificate I will become a secretary," she says. Genival Silva Costa, 46, a plasterer, is studying because his boss promised him a job as doorman or elevator operator if he finishes the course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Three Rs in Brazil | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

...four years old, and already papa has him concerned about college. At 17 he may well become what one educator calls the U.S. high school senior-"A bundle of nerves in a rat race." Never before have so many Americans coveted the 700-year-old Artium Bacca-laureus-and never before has the competition been stiffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes Good Nerves | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Phebe Crampton of Cohasset and Cabot Hall and Maryalice McArdle of Cambridge and Cabot Hall came in second and third, which gives them the duties of Commencement Chairman and Bacca-laureate Chairman respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Seniors Name Graduation Ceremony Heads | 3/26/1952 | See Source »

...Class Day Committee wishes to draw the attention of Seniors to the competitions for Class Day ticket designs and for the words of the Bacca-laureate Hymn. All Seniors possessing ability along these lines are urgently requested to enter the competitions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Class Day Notice | 3/4/1920 | See Source »

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