Word: chile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientists realized that this hard & fast pronouncement was not based on sheer theory but was solidly documented by weather records for months, years, decades. Dr. Abbot studies solar radiation from his Washington station while his men study it from such farflung vantage points as Table Mountain, Calif.; Mt. Montezuma, Chile; Mount St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. With the help of a "brass brain" (a periodometer or mechanical calculator) which he invented to co-ordinate chaotic masses of data, he delved into the temperature and precipitation records of Bismarck, N. Dak., far back into the last century. In them...
Died. Aida E. M. Birrel Iglehart. 52, Long Island horsewoman, polo sponsor, art patron, Chile-born wife of Importer D. Stewart Iglehart (president of W. R. Grace & Co. and Grace Steamship Co.), mother of Poloists Stewart Iglehart (8-goal handicap) and Philip Iglehart; of pneumonia; in Westbury...
...Representatives. The Capitol press gallery admission rules specify "persons whose chief attention is given to telegraphic correspondence for daily newspapers or newspaper associations. . . ." It was not Columbia's idea to broadcast directly the voices of Congressmen in debate or dalliance. That departure in governmental publicity, tried in Chile but abandoned because it was too boring (TIME, April 3), would have to be sanctioned by act of Congress. Columbia News Service asked for gallery seats for three Columbia reporters who would take notes like any correspondents and relay the day's doings on the legislative floors via microphone. Hotly...
...Rise of Democracy in Chile." Professor Haring, Harvard...
...Justo of Argentina who rolled up to Rio in a battleship (TIME, Oct. 16). Just before his departure last week dynamic General Justo signed with broad and highbrowed Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil what they called "ten treaties." First was a pact of utmost significance, binding Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Paraguay last week to 1) renounce aggressive war, 2) refuse to recognize territorial acquisitions made by conquest and 3) combat outside intervention in settling South American disputes. Up to the day of signing it was not known how many states would sign with Argentina and Brazil. Paraguay...