Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning the national grade-school spelling bee in Washington last week, eleven-year-old Richard Earnhart of El Paso, Tex. got $500 and a two-day trip to New York City. There he had his first brush with the metropolitan press, came off winner, hands down, over a flabbergasted World-Telegram reporter...
...carefully chosen 2% of the museum's remaining 500,000 treasures have been trucked to the country hideaway. Gone are the Altman and most of the Morgan collections, the Van Eycks and other Flemish Primitives, Rubens' bulky Venus and Adonis, the museum's most famous El Greco, View of Toledo...
...From across the Mexican border, El Paso Texans may bring each day without interference from the customs guards 2 kilograms (4.4 Ib.) of Mexican sugar...
...El Pampero goes, so usually goes the Nazi fifth column in Argentina. And last week Pampero, biggest openly Nazi newspaper in the Western Hemisphere, stopped publishing. This week it reappeared in reduced format: a single printed sheet folded to make four pages...
...fortunes of war, Corregidor can observe another anniversary this week. Forty-four years ago, on May Day, Commodore George Dewey slipped in past The Rock on a starlit night. A signal light from The Rock flashed the warning of his fleet's approach, but only a gun on El Fraile (now Fort Drum) spat futilely at the Olympia and her following ships. Next morning the Spanish fleet, cornered like huddled rabbits off Cavite, was bashed to bits...