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Word: cuba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership of the club consists of students from Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Cuba, and Peru; while forty per cent of the group are citizens of the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUTH AMERICAN PROFESSOR TO SPEAK FOR PAN-AMERICAN CLUB MEETING | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

Activities include a series of lectures, dances featuring a plentiful supply of cuba libres, beer parties, and regular meetings with discussions in Spanish and English. The club is collecting South American newspapers and magazines which Widener does not have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOUTH AMERICAN PROFESSOR TO SPEAK FOR PAN-AMERICAN CLUB MEETING | 12/13/1940 | See Source »

Jamaica, 80 miles south of Cuba and 500 miles north of the Panama Canal, is the only new U. S. base squarely within the Caribbean. For big, rugged Jamaica, the U. S. Navy has big plans : an anchorage at Portland Bight, in Galleon Harbor 33 square miles of land base; 100 acres near Williamsfield for a recreation centre and hospital mess ; a mile-square area south of May Pen for an emergency and auxiliary landing field. Near by at Port Royal the British naval dockyard, long neglected, will be improved by the U. S., providing the U. S. Navy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Bases Chosen | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...that Mme. Lupescu and ex-Lord Chamberlain Udarianu be sent back to Bucharest to stand trial, respectively, for the "murder" of No. 1 Iron Guardist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, the looting of the Rumanian treasury. The Rumanian "party" were apparently still under genteel Spanish detainment. Carol had been invited to Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quakes and Carol | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...production, T.S. Eliot's "The Family Reunion," which was an involved work with a classic Greek theme and partly in verse form. The new play concerns a man who explains his absences from home to meet his French chorus girl mistress by saying that he must take trips to Cuba on business. Complications arise when his family forces his hand by making the adulterer take them to Cuba to see his imaginary plantation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club to Show Gillette Drama Next | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

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