Word: juan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pardon, my General," quavered Orderly Juan, "I could not find a soldier to take your bomb to the canal...
...What's this?" cried he with an expression of disgust. "A bomb on my desk? Juan!" he called to his orderly. "Take this away and throw it in the canal...
Dashing, theatrically handsome, 37-year-old General Juan Andreu Almazan was the hero of a battle that seemed to have definitely broken the backbone of the revolution...
...great protagonist of the Wrights in France. But in France where the elder Lahm has lived in retirement since the War, he is less a recollection. Each year he gives 30,000 francs ($1,175) for the most interesting accomplishment in aviation. Last week he gave the money to Juan de la Cierva, who invented the autogiro (flying machine with vanes whirling horizontally to give the effect of fixed wings) and who flew it recently across the English Channel...
Subscriber Gladys Slaughter originally rebuked TIME for not displaying Maracay as the place where "the original bachelor father," President Juan Vincente Gomez of Venezuela, lives with his "Reigning Favorite . . . and what's more at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children." To Dictator Gomez a thoroughgoing rebuke, if his minions have kept from Subscriber Slaughter the issue of TIME in which her letter appeared...