Search Details

Word: belen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...BELEN, N. MEX. The caboose is no Pullman car, but it is comfortable enough with folded-down seats to sleep on, a lavatory, a small refrigerator, a water cooler and an oil stove, which serves to heat the car and warm the breakfast coffee cake. The desert dawn is bright and clear; the sun backlights the Manzano Mountains to the east. The train climbs continually to the Continental Divide crossing at Gonzales. "Back in the days of hand-fired steam locomotives, we were real glad to get here," says Ray Derksen, acting train master at Gallup. Derksen points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Freight: Across the U.S. on Super C | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

Moving to Havana, Castro enrolled at the Jesuits' Belen College, got interested in politics. Like many another Cuban student, he kept a revolver or two around the dormitory. He worked his way up through student politics at Belen and Havana University (1945-50), got hauled in twice for questioning about political murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Vengeful Visionary | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

KARL STERNBERG Belen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...anger. He finally collected himself and handed newsmen a reply, just in time to catch the Monday morning papers. Said he: "My opponent indicated that he has no program and has sunk to mere quoting from Mein Kampf. . . . I shall examine his record with unvarnished candor." At Belen, N. Mex., Tom Dewey got off, walked into a glass phone booth in the station, put in a long distance call to National Chairman Herbert Brownell. While Indian children and cowboys ogled him through the glass, Tom Dewey ordered a second radio network (170 more stations on the Blue) for his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Countercharge | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...current University bill be interesting not so much as a good program, for it is not, but as a case example in the progress of American movie subject matter. Along with a rather mediocre comedy, "We're On the Jury" (Victor Moore and Belen Broderick) and a first-rate "March of Time", there is "John Meado's Woman", with Edward Arnold and Francis Larrimore. It is this picture which is the case...

Author: By W. N. C., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |