Word: estero
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a pudgy finger President Roberto M. Ortiz of Argentina last week twirled the dial of his telephone, talked briefly to the governors of his four northwest provinces-La Rioja, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero and Tucuman. Thus symbolized was the fact that these sparsely settled but rich grazing lands for the first time enjoyed telephone connections with the world at large. Also symbolized was far-flung International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s successful foreign investment...
...that moral perfection should be the goal of Christians); Charismatic (Pentecostal or "Holy Roller" sects whose members consider themselves endowed with special charismata or gifts, such as the gift of speaking in "unknown tongues"); Communistic (the almost-defunct Shakers, the defunct Oneida Community, the still-existing Church Triumphant of Estero. Fla., whose members believe that the world is a hollow ball, with men living inside it) ; Legalistic (Old Catholics, Mennonites, Primitive Baptists and other churches which stress certain rules, practices, objective "things" as essentials of true religion...