Word: chili
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days after that, President Coolidge told a White House caller, who had just returned from South America, that he could imagine and had long considered the state of Maine and the Republic of Chili being joined some day by a monumental motor highway, which would unite North and South America commercially, socially...
Valedictory. In a congratulatory speech Dr. Alberto Guani of Chili, president of the eighth Assembly, brought the session to a close. Said he: "For more than three weeks the governments have been sitting in this Assembly. They have considered international activity in all aspects and they have surveyed their policy and I am convinced have decided their future program. Not one of them will for a moment dream of evading the unwritten engagements it has contracted in this hall. Not one of them will forget the discussions that have taken place or the conclusions that have been reached. That...
...tell the mother of little Horace to tell Horace that his father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command...
...came to Chiang Kai-shek 39 years ago in a tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
...next Olympic games. Newspapermen sought out Zafiro and San Miguel. "We are strong," they replied, "because we live in the open air. We wear, in daylight, cloths around our privities; at night we cover ourselves with the skins of beasts. We eat, four times a day, frijoles1 and chili with tortillas.2 Also we like deer meat, chickens, turtles, lizards and rabbits. We chew peyote,3 and on feasts we drink pinole.4 No one of our tribe would eat the meat of any creature that fed upon another creature. Reverence lends wings to the legs. Only thus...