Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...55th time after sidestepping its two most explosive problems and passing others over for future study. By far the most picturesque meeting in its history, it was one of the least fruitful. General Primo de Rivera's government had contrived to make it, with the Seville and Barcelona Expositions (TIME, May 20), Spain's biggest show. Hampered by publicity, the Council members resorted more than ever to secret sessions and corridor conferences to get their real work done...
There was no need to awaken the city of Barcelona, which has just opened an exposition of its own. Barcelona is Spain's greatest seaport, most modern, most commercially successful city of the Iberian peninsula. Barcelona's exposition buildings on a hillside overlooking the city are new, strikingly modernistic...
Excerpts from the Stein text: Did he and his wife and his sister expect to eat little birds. Little birds least of all. All the capitals that begin with A. Aix Aries and Avignon. Those that begin with be Beaux. That makes four. These that begin with B. Barcelona. Those that begin with M. Marseilles and Mallorca. You mean Palma. Yes P. Palma da Mallorca. . First Capital: Egypt. Second Capital: Rabbit. Third Capital: Fingering. Fourth Capital: Ardently silk. Fourth Capital: Spontaneously married. Third Capital: Camel's hair. Second Capital: Eider Down. First Capital: Chenille...
...works: new "Palace of Justice" in Messina, Sicily (cost some 20.000.000 lire); new Ministry of Marine and Ministry of Education buildings in Rome; new "Port of Rome" at Civita Vecchia (45 miles from the Capital); and two new commercial air services?respectively Rome-Syracuse-Tripoli and Rome- Genoa-Marseilles-Barcelona-Las Palmas, both routes served by 2,000 h.p. four-motored German super-Wahl seaplanes...
...duties in Spain are so arduous that he may never come to America, so he is sending me instead, to 'show his interest in America, because I am his namesake. . . . This year and next there will be great expositions at Seville and Barcelona, so there has now been established the Patronato Regio del Turismo (Royal Tourist Board) composed of many important Spanish personages...