Word: huancayo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race. The institute was founded (in 1930) to study the Andean Indian and thus to find ways of making the mountains livable for newcomers, both human and animal. At first, Dr. Monge had almost no money or trained help and made little progress. (Once, when he sent rabbits to Huancayo for observation, the observer ate them...
...Every year," said Dr. Monge, "about 100,000 men come down to sea level for agricultural work, but after about three months . . . like the swallows . . . they go back to the altitude." The doctor has accustomed himself to spend several weeks a year at his red brick experimental station in Huancayo 10,000 feet up; after a few days he feels fine...