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Word: continente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A lot of quaint old American customs were turning up in Europe, bringing new romance and excitement to the increasingly prosaic continent. ¶At Rome's Stadio Nazionale. some 12,000 puzzled fans witnessed Europe's first international Pallabase (baseball) game. Urged by loudspeakers "not to be angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Cultural Notes | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Korean is one of the many novelties in this year's course of instruction roster. Those who found themselves incomprehensible to natives on their trip to France this summer may take a course in Pronunciation of French with Associate Professor Mareei A. Francon and return to the Continent next summer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Korean, Conant, More G.E. Head Fall Slate of Courses | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Last week, trying all the harder to carry out these orders now that the old man is back at the helm of Brazil, the foundation was valiantly hacking away at one of the world's last great frontiers. To do the job, it had an appropriation of $400,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Winning of the West | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

No longer do rancher and farmer struggle alone against flood and drought in, one of the most formidable regions of a formidable continent. For seven years, the Missouri Valley has been the scene of one of the greatest land and water control and development projects ever attempted, a spectacular 35...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri Valley: LAND OF THE BIG MUDDY | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

The nub of this development program is the turbulent Missouri River, longest on the continent, stretching 2,465 miles from Three Forks, Mont. to the silt-choked mouth which empties into the Mississippi River, ten miles above St. Louis. Besides other names, many unprintable, the Missouri has been called "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missouri Valley: LAND OF THE BIG MUDDY | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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