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Word: burros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time, word of her phenomenal "voice of the birds and of the earthquake" reached Lima. After traveling 16 days by boat, train and burro to reach her village, a party from Lima heard her, persuaded her parents to let her go to the capital to study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Daughter of the Sun God | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

Although the Post is delivered by bicycle, burro and plane daily in every one of the 13 states in the Rocky Mountain Empire, energetic Ep Hoyt is not relaxing. He munches candy bars, swallows vitamin pills, and takes catnaps to keep going 18 hours a day. He traveled 45,000 miles last year, selling the Post to the empire. The hustle & bustle pays off. Last year's gross: $12,000,000 (net: more than $1,000,000). To Ep Hoyt and the Post that is not good enough. They share the old Bonfils motto, still published daily: "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Emperor's New Court | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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