Word: faustino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know of at least one Argentine who did not think as Mr. Llambi-Campbell evidently does. His name was Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, onetime President of Argentina in the-1870s. He established schools based upon the United States model, educated his people in the political institutions of the United States, which he greatly admired and respected, by having such great American documents as the Federalist, and the constitutional writings of Joseph Story, translated into Spanish...
...Argentine Historian Leopoldo Lugones on onetime President and historian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ("the Argentine Jefferson"): "Danger was his habit and wrath his beauty; his dimensions became those of a deity, cleaving the air like lightning, riding the tempest with a cloud at his belt and a thunderbolt on his shoulder...