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Word: eleazar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this took place because of an old Spanish custom brought up to date. For years, Venezuelan employers gave their workers a Christmas aguinaldo, an annual bonus, sometimes amounting to as much as two weeks' pay. In 1936, President Eleazar Lopez Contreras turned the aguinaldo principle into law. He decreed that employers must split 10% of their profits among their workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiesta! | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. . . . Numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biggest S'micha | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...everything happens except the storming of the Alamo and the rape of Lucrece. Holdfast Gaines, despite his name, is a Mohegan Indian, in the direct line of the great King Uncas himself. He is a nephew of Samson Occum-whom Dartmouth men will remember as an Indian protege of Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth's pious founder. Nathan Hale is Holdfast's tutor. Among his friends and acquaintances: Daniel Boone, Tecumseh, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ugh for Uncas | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Methodist Bishop Eleazar Guerra appealed for tolerance. Mexico's tiny Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez calmly declared: "Protestant activities do not interest the Catholic Church." And peace was restored for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Big Lather | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...Parana River from rich Argentina came two mine layers and a delegation of nine officials led by Rear Admiral Eleazar Videla. Out of the sky from Bolivia came nine planeloads of officials; from Brazil more airplanes; from Chile a delegation with Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernández; from Uruguay U.S. Ambassador William Dawson. From as far away as Costa Rica came others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Back to Glory | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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