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Word: barba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an old man called "Barba," a patriarch of the mountain town of Kalav-ryta, sighed and said: "The blood my family has shed in Kalavryta would fill three whole barrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Beautiful Springs | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...time the track opens, Promoter Pagliai hopes every one of its 800 stalls will be filled. Last week 300 horses were already trying out its racing strip - including nine owned by President Camacho, eight owned by Governor Barba González of Jalisco, scores of U.S. racers recently imported from California by Mexican bigwigs. Even ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, who once banned all gambling in Mexico (except the National Lottery), is contemplating a racing stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Neighbor's Racetrack | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Married. Cinecomedian Charles Ruggles, 50; and Marian La Barba, 38; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Her previous husbands: ex-Flyweight Champion Fidel La Barba, Cartoonist Billy De Beck (Barney Google...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

That case would leave out Mexico's astonishing reaction to news that barely made a stir in the U.S. During the long negotiations Mexicans were saying cynically: "Están haciendose la barba" (They are rubbing each other's cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Agreement to Agree | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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