Word: es
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state of Kentucky, was taken from Germany in World War I. Mostly high equatorial plateau; a hunter's paradise but infested with tsetse flies. Population: 16,000 whites, half of them Germans; 23,000 Indian traders; 7,000,000 Bantus, scattered in some 100 tribes. Capital: Dar es Salaam. Resources: cotton, sisal, peanuts...
...little hosts to think as well as speak in Spanish. With pictures or the actual objects involved, he engaged the children in increasingly fluent chats about such commonplaces as food, animals, colors, clothing and toys. To measure progress, Rivera, showing a drawing of a man, would say: "¿Esta es una madre?" Or sometimes he asked: "¿Servimos azúcar en los huevos?" (Shall we serve sugar on the eggs?). If anyone replied yes, Rivera would backtrack on the "lesson...
Waste of Time & Money. These homely activities made sense to the France that bred Antoine Pinay-not the American tourist's France of roasted chestnuts and rhinestoned poodles on the Champs-Ely-sées, "Allo darleeng" in the Place Pigalle, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent, bikinis at Biarritz and baccarat at Nice-but the provincial France of hard-scraped farms, gnarled vineyards, smudgy little factories; of closefisted small shopkeepers, scuff-knuckled farmers and black-stockinged bakers' daughters. It is a France tradition-bound, slow to change, as stolid, solid and unspectacular as the pallid...
OPPRESSED BASQUES Saint-Jean-de-Luz Basses-Pyrénées...
...child of four, Landowska expressed herself on the piano while other children were learning to talk. Her first teacher, recognizing her precocious virtuosity, let her play whatever music pleased her. But "a stern, dry man" took his place, and "my delightful roamings through the gavottes and bourrées of Bach were at an end." She was very unhappy. "I dream only one thing, when I am grown to play only Bach, Haydn and Mozart." She sealed this vow in an envelope, to be opened "when I am a big girl. But I opened it the next day, of course...