Word: marly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's agenda. The next is the E.A.R.C. 2,000-meter sprint championship, which the Crimson will be fighting to retain for the third straight year. Following this comes a fight with Bolles' old nemesis, Cornell. Last year, the Ithacans were the only crew (outside of the Olympics) to mar the Varsity's record; and this spring's race takes place on Lake Cayuga, the only place where a Bolles-coached crew has raced but never...
...last music because she and German were quarreling about minor details of Manuel's will. The more poetic theory: just before his death, Manuel had told Maria that the role of God in La Atlantida must be sung by one who was absolutely pure in heart and María, now a wrinkled, white-haired 62, felt that there is no such man in the world today...
...approved Argentine fashion, the union's officers had taken their demands to the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, the preserve of María Eva Duarte de Perón. The secretariat, acting on hold-the-line advice from the nation's new economic council, met the union's demands only halfway. When their Peronista officers failed to protest, the union's rank & file revolted...
...beaches, lakes, mountains. In buses chartered by sports clubs, other sweating thousands rattled off for a day's dip in the chill Pacific, just two hours away at San Antonio. The luckiest Chileans, including President Gabriel González Videla, lolled in the luxury of Vina del Mar, where they improved their tans on white crescent beaches, on yacht decks, or on the balconies of flower-girt villas...
...Slacks. At an even greater rate, Argentines were pouring into Mar del Plata, the Atlantic City of the south. With 300,000 vacationists jamming its villas and 671 hotels, it had become for the season Argentina's third city. The renowned Hector y Su Jazz played nightly to capacity crowds at the world's largest casino. Beachgoers dined on steaks two inches thick, tangoed to a new tune called El Cafetin de Buenos Aires, then wound up their day with a fling at roulette. Though nowadays only waiters and casino attendants dressed after dark, much...