Word: continente
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But once there was Pusey who liked the adventurous and disdained the academic. This was Philip Pusey who entered Oxford in 1817 and, the records considerately say, "Left without taking a degree." Philip romanced a while after Oxford, then went to the continent, probably at the request of his father...
Still, Germany and the rest of the booming continent share one problem with Britain. A pressing labor shortage is curtailing industrial expansion throughout Europe, said ECE. As a result, demand is outracing supply, and prices are on the way up.
Rule of East Pakistan by the Awami League, which wants Pakistan to switch to a neutralist foreign policy, carried unpleasant implications for the U.S., which considers Pakistan its most reliable ally on the Asian continent. It also posed a considerably more immediate threat to Prime Minister Mohamad Ali, 51, the...
Britons sometimes like to forget that their proud island was once a mere peninsula of the European continent-a condition that, as geologists figure it, ceased only a short time ago. Dr. Harold Godwin of Cambridge has now estimated within a few centuries the date when the friendly sea broke...
Ten thousand years ago, says Dr. Godwin, the last remnants of the Pleistocene glacier held out in the higher mountains of northern Britain. Plant remains of this date show that the country was open, arctic tundra with scattered patches of silver birch. Sea level was much lower. Peat dredged from...