Word: costa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends. Since the Conservative President of Nicaragua, Dr. Adolfo Diaz, will now be maintained in office by U. S. marines until 1928, the Liberal President of Nicaragua, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, recognized by Mexico (TIME, Dec. 20), fled to Costa Rica and was banqueted in San Jose last week by a group of Costa Rican deputies...
...Piracy became unpopular at the end of the 17th Century; it was no longer a proper adventure for the gentry. But the Mosquito Indians, mindful of the exploits of the English buccaneers, persisted in the good work. For a hundred years, they ravaged the Spanish settlements, exacted tribute from Costa Rica, and expelled other tribes from the coast regions, driving them to a nomadic existence in the interior...
...mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus (southern U. S.) carries the disease fully 1½ miles from its breeding place in stagnant waters. These breeding spots must be cleaned up, the Board taught 12 states here. It explained the same in Porto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Palestine, the Philippines, Hayti, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ceylon...
...everyone knows, a succession of revolts has rent and impoverished Portugal since the "original revolution" of October 5, 1910, resulted in the overthrow of King Manuel II and the setting up of a Republic. General da Costa seized the Government from Dictator-Commander Cabecadas who had overthrown President Machada (TIME, June...
Revolutionaries Cabecadas, da Costa and Carmona represent merely themselves and such officers and armed forces as they are able to muster in their personal defense. They were associated while launching the coup which ousted President Machada. Since then they and many another of their peers or henchmen have fallen a-quarreling over the spoils. So little interest is taken by the populace and even the army in their doings that the last three routine revolutions have been run off without the firing of a single shot...