Word: colonizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past seven years changed the name of America's most ancient city from San Domingo to his own. The Dominican airplane, a single-motored, 450-h. p. Curtiss-Wright 19R, piloted by the nation's Army Air Commander Major Frank Felix Miranda, was named the Colon, Spanish version of Columbus. The three Cuban planes, all new single-motored, 285-h. p. Stinson "Reliants," were romantically titled after Columbus' discovery ships- Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. With them as representative of Pan American Columbus Society went Havana Journalist Ruy de Lugo Vina. Gaily they took off. visited...
Soon after dawn one morning last week the four planes left Cali, Colombia for Panama. Because of adverse weather 'reports Major Frank Felix Miranda flew the Colon northeast up the valley between the ranges of the Cordilleras, sat down safely at his destination. The three Cuban planes, commanded by First Lieutenant Antonio Menendez Pelaez, transatlantic Naval ace, wanting to reach the coast before turning north, started to cross the Cordilleras to the west. Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried...
...additional mule is a small mule, in fact it is almost a burro. It was the gift to the Cadet Corps from Captain Colon Eloy Alfaro, Minister of Ecuador, who has two sons in the Corps...
...warm U. S. tourists bustled and Panamanian loafers ogled in the railway station at Colon, C. Z., one day last week, few noticed a swart, perspiring gentleman who descended from the Panama City train with his wife and five children in tow. But everyone turned in terror as with a sudden ccr-a-a-c-k a fierce-eyed fellow lashed out at him with a horsewhip. Soon the two were grappling for a revolver, rending the air with torrid Spanish curses. Police intervened and hustled both men off to jail...
...abdominal exercises. . . . Yogins attempt from very early in their practice to gain control of the anal sphincters. The first effort in this direction consists of repeated contraction and relaxation of the sphincters for several minutes in succession." An adept can, by muscular force alone, ventilate and irrigate his colon, or rinse out his stomach. A photograph of one of Swami Kuvalayananda's disciples in the latter act is included in Dr. Behanan's well-illustrated text...