Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plantation bought for him by the Venezuelan government, Steinmetz had raised soybeans, crossbred them. Finally he had a black soybean. He named it Santa Maria. Slightly smaller and softer than the common bean, it has none of the bitter aftertaste of the ordinary soybean. More important, it is chock full of proteins and contains all the known vitamins except C. One kilo is equal in protein to six dozen eggs or twelve pints of milk, items always scarce in the Latin American diet. It is also cheaper than the regular bean: 1.50 bolivars per kilo (45?) instead of 2.50 bolivars...
...food-importing Venezuelans, Santa Maria was pretty important. Said ex-Agriculture Minister Eduardo Mendoza: "This can change the national economy of our country...
...Died. Maria Kapitonovna Petrova, 72, star pupil and longtime colleague of the late, great Physiologist Ivan Pavlov in his studies of conditioned reflex (by experiments with dogs); in Leningrad. She carried on Pavlov's studies after he died in 1936, published more than 100 works, lived according to Pavlov's precept: happiness is nothing, the dogs mean...
...Canada Steamship Lines will enter the Saguenay, their rails lined with the first of the season's 250,000 tourists, mostly from the U.S. Off the frowning, forbidding, 2,000-foot cliff of Cape Eternity, the ships will slow down. Their jazz orchestras will grind out Ave Maria and searchlights will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel at the long-drawn echoes between Capes Trinity and Eternity-what Christopher...
...sides). Mozart began writing this masterpiece in the last few months of his life, for another's memorial. Finished by his pupil Sussmayer, it has since served well as Mozart's own memorial. This is a recording of the magnificent performance in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome on the 150th anniversary of his death (1941). Recording: good...