Word: cruz
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...single blow. Instead the Earth trembled very gently from 9 p. m. until 3½ minutes past, then settled down for the night. Though the tremors shook nine Mexican states only three deaths were reported and property damage was not great. At the famed seaport of Vera Cruz a strange streaky red glow in the night sky accompanied the tremors, which were strong enough to ring the Cathedral bells. Municipal water tanks at Mexico City trembled until they slopped over...
...Vera Cruz episode and the outbreak of the World War kept him much occupied with naval affairs during 1914. In March, 1915, he was appointed National Commissioner to the Panama Pacific Exposition, and visited San Francisco with the vice president, on the same trip inspecting various naval properties and ships on the Pacific coast. The year 1916 was wholly occupied in doing what was possible under the existing law in getting the Navy Department prepared for the threatened hostilities...
...Bombilla. No sooner was President Elect Obregon assassinated than Chief of Police Roberto Cruz of Mexico City was relieved of that office on general principles and replaced by the doughty General Antonio Rios Zertuche. "We must keep calm!" he exclaimed repeatedly to reporters, "We must keep calm...
...made Carranza President," said Obregon to the late Spanish novelist Vincente Blasco Ibafiez, "I took Carranza in triumph from Vera Cruz to the Presidential chair. Afterwards it was my turn. Isn't that fair...
...Bacteriophage-a living by-product of the development of bacteria which has the power of destroying the bacteria when they reach a certain concentration (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926). The bacteriophage of bacillary dysentery has been employed by the Oswaldo-Cruz Institute in Brazil to eradicate bacillary dysentery in that country...