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Word: blanco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't prepared for the clear white space which greeted her eyes when she turned the communication over. First throught was Irvin H. Blank, research fellow in Dermatology. Or maybe Carlos A. Blanco '49, or Dorothy J. Blanker at the School of Education, or Euan T. Blanch 1M. Finally she sent it to the Lampoon, one-time University funny magazine. "They've been drawing blanks for years," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Somebody's Firing Blanks; Could Lampy Be the Target? | 3/5/1946 | See Source »

...starting lineup against Brown: g, Harshman; 1b, Dean; rb, Day; rh, Butcher; ch, Mavor; lh, Glidden, or Guild; ir, Blanco; cf, Genn; il, Pearson; ol, Corrigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON OUT FOR BEAR IN BRUIN SOCCER BOUT | 11/14/1944 | See Source »

Dermatologists used to think pinta was a fungus disease, but in 1938, Mexican doctors proved that the germ is a spirochete that looks exactly like those of syphilis or yaws (a tropical disease characterized by sores on the skin). In 1939, Mexico's Dr. Francisco Leon y Blanco published the results of experiments on himself and 31 Mexican and Cuban volunteers, all of whom had been inoculated with material from pinta patients. Dr. Leon y Blanco gave the first play-by-play description of the disease's course. First a small, dark raised spot appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pinta | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

With this triumph over the Fascist-minded National (Blanco) Party, acceptance of a new Constitution drafted by President Baldomir seemed a certainty. It would replace the outworn Constitution promulgated eight years ago after a coup d'état by the late President Gabriel Terra, which gave minority parties a disproportionate voice in public affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Uruguay's Choice | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Gulf of Guayaquil commences geographically at Cabo Blanco, on the Peruvian coast, so there is nothing unusual in that "the Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1941 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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