Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Russians had sailed a few members of the Hungarian team; they were stunned when they heard the news from their homeland, but did not know what to do. Olympic officials nervously awaited reaction from the arrival of the bulk of the Hungarian team. Meanwhile, the Olympic torch, lit...
Writers are passing strange, and those who herd together in writers' colonies are apt to be stranger still. Perhaps the strangest writers' colony on the North American continent is located in rolling corn-hog country on the outskirts of Marshall, Ill. (pop. 2,960) and looks rather like...
¶ The Roman Catholic Church is investigating 313 candidates for beatification, the preliminary to sainthood. Rome and Naples lead the field with 56 candidates each. But no fledgling saints are being considered from the whole of the American continent, Asia, Africa or Australia.
Dr. Kraus does not claim to know what the mysterious sources may be. He suspects that they are thunderstorms. He has no idea why they seem to be concentrated on one side of the planet. When the reason for this lopsidedness (a continent? ocean? mountains?) has been deduced, it will...
...explored-it has rather been surveyed. The first problem of the people who settled in this immense and spatial continent was not to explore it but to 'lay it out'-to find the shortest distance between two points, to get the best and easiest grade across the continental divide . . . We have hunted always for the short cut, the practicable way . . . Well this is surveyordom-it is not exploring...