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Word: juncal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...broad, snow-padded slope within easy stretcher-bearing distance of the hotel. But Kanonen (experts), led by Skimaster Allais, climbed by ski to the Christ of the Andes for a Schuss of six glorious miles tc Portillo. Or they took a thundering trail three precipitous miles to Juncal where railway handcars pumped them back to Portillo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Schuss in the Andes | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...small Spanish town lay quietly couched in the hills of the Basque country. The first late April fruits were beginning to fill the thick mountain trees. At the bottom of the hill, just below the town, the reedy flat of el Juncal was calm after its first spring floods, and the streams that had choked it with torrents after the early snow thaws were now seeping in more placidly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS & CRITIQUES | 10/9/1941 | See Source »

...small house in Buenos Aires' Calle Juncal last week a bustling blonde housekeeper dusted provincial furniture, straightened somber religious pictures, made an old-fashioned brass bed. Icy rains had brought autumn to Argentina, and the master of the house in the Calle Juncal, Ramon S. Castillo, was moving in from his suburban quinta in Martinez beside the Rio de la Plata. In the domed Palacio del Congreso, Acting President Castillo's political housekeepers were similarly occupied. They swept out the debris of one of the most extraordinary sessions any legislative body had ever held, made ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Hour of Decision | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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