Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tunisia (pop. 3,700,000), which is the smallest, happiest and quietest of the three French possessions, and the most advanced toward independence. Besides Algeria's inhospitable plateaus, this is a broad stretch of country sloping down through grain fields, vineyards and great olive groves to the sea. It...
Within a decade the idea had spread through England to the Continent, and to Canada and the U.S. The budding associations soon began branching into education. In 1855 the first World Conference convened in Paris. To all established Y.M.C.A.s went a letter describing the kind of delegate that the conference...
* On his first two voyages Columbus discovered Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, etc. Only on his third voyage (1498) did he reach the mainland. Author Arciniegas claims that Amerigo actually reached the continent the year before. From the meager evidence (mainly letters), other scholars doubt this, believe that Amerigo followed Columbus...
Read last week by Russell, under the glare of television lights in London's Caxton Hall, it said: "We are speaking on this occasion not as members of this or that nation, continent or creed, but as human beings ... The world is full of conflicts, and, overshadowing all minor...
...Iowa farm, where the cows were just getting in from pasture. It moved on to Denver, where office workers were homeward bound, jumped to Salt Lake City on the other side of the Rockies and on to the Pacific, swelling with awesome beauty in the setting sun. This cross-continental panorama of a nation, simultaneously caught at work and play within the same bracket of time, had the impact and immediacy of a kind of electronic miracle that allows people to see what once could only be grasped by the imagination...