Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lima, Peru...
...thousand feet up in the Andes* lives a race of men with enormous energy and cast-iron hearts. Dr. Carlos Monge of Lima, Peru last week described that race, the highest in the world, to scientists at the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary meeting (see p. 63). For his research he received an honorary degree. The thin Andes air kills weaklings. So the 12,000,000 Andes strong-hearts are the product of centuries of painful adaptation to scarcity of oxygen. In years of laboratory study. Dr. Monge found...
...Peru announced that German diplomatic pouches would no longer be exempt from customs examination, since Nazi officials had used them "for purposes other than the transport of official correspondence." One of the other purposes had been to send a radio transmitter to the German Legation in Lima. When Peruvian customs officials refused to pass the transmitter unopened it was sent back to Argentina. There it was seized, with other German diplomatic correspondence, by the eager sleuthhounds of the Argentine "Comité Dies." Last week, after much diplomatic fussing, the Germans got the transmitter and most of their documents back...
Pedaling serenely home from a 667-mile bicycle trip through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, Federal Judge George A. Welsh wheeled up to his Lima, Pa. doorstep with news that men had heard before but hope always to hear again: "Whatever may be in store for us, you can count on the people. They will not fail...
...quite so conclusive was the evidence that Nazi propaganda had touched off the inflammable question of the Peru-Ecuador boundary.* But to U.S. newsmen in Lima, Peruvian authorities said frankly that they were less worried about the war than they were about the way German propagandists would distort any U.S. offer to arbitrate. To Argentina the belligerents finally sent their promise to arbitrate...