Word: connecticut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Chamoun was aware that there are 250,000 Lebanese in Brazil. Smaller than Connecticut, the republic at the eastern end of the Mediterranean is so densely populated (1,250,000) that a nearly equal number have moved out and now live abroad. Some 500,000 are in the U.S., many in Brooklyn. Explained a Foreign Office official in Beirut: "Our people have been traders since the dawn of history, and they can sniff a business opportunity a long way off." Some Lebanese opportunity-sniffers in Brazil have been strikingly successful...
...cold, they say, its people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too hot, they relax into slow-moving lassitude. Chief exponent of this theory was Yale's Professor Ellsworth Huntington, who lived in New Haven, Conn. He decided that the climate of Connecticut is ideal for culture...
...team play the varsity's total score put the golfers in fourth place, only three strokes behind first place Connecticut and Dartmouth and Williams golfers, who tied for second, with 301s...
...Connecticut Farmers...
...contributions and physical labor of more than thirteen hundred citizens of the neighboring countryside. Although it still instructs in "all branches of literature and science," it long ago adopted the surname of the renowned Indian hunter and has long since extended its influence beyond the sons of the Connecticut Valley farmers. Now a national institution, it tends to draw most of its students from the upper-middle, suburban classes of the middle, western and seaboard cities...