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Word: compara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Culled mostly from Harvard's three art museums, the Museum of Compara- ative Zoology and the John F. Kennedy Institute, the potpourri includes three priceless glass flowers that have not left Harvard since 1892, an 80-in. stuffed sailfish, a water pump bought by the university after a disastrous fire in 1764 and assorted Crimson football banners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Thank You from Harvard | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Juan Peron, Argentina's onetime strongman, has said repeatedly that he would return to his homeland "when the people tell me the bollo [roll] is ready for the oven." Apparently the bollo is now ready. In Buenos Aires, Peron's top aide, Hector Compara, announced that el Lider would arrive in Argentina on Nov. 17, thus ending 17 years of exile abroad, most of it spent in princely isolation in Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: El Lider Returns | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

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