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Word: marta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latin America had a new song rage last week and a dance to go with it. The song was Santa Marta; the dance, the Porro Colombiano. Both seemed likely to follow the rumba and the conga-and other Latin American song hits-north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South American Smash | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...Santa Marta is a catchy invocation of the Colombian banana port of that name (pop. 40,000), where the great Simon Bolivar died in 1830. The song's words call attention to an interesting feature of the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South American Smash | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...Santa Marta has a train, Santa Marta has a train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South American Smash | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Born. To Jan Kiepura, 42, and Marta Eggerth, 29, cinema and stage singers lately costarred in the Manhattan revival of The Merry Widow: a first child, Jan Tadeusz (named in honor of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish general of American Revolutionary War fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...were no human casualties. St. Peter's had not been hit, but many of its windows had been shattered. According to a Vatican City broadcast, the famed Studio del Musaico (mosaic workshops) stood unroofed, the Governor's Palace and the old buildings along the Piazza di Santa Marta showed ugly scars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Bombs on the Vatican | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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