Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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For months the prelates of the Sacred Congregation of Rites had pondered the choice. The saint they chose, it was decided, should be one who had broken through the mists of medieval ignorance with the learning that the Church had preserved in its monasteries. But St.
Solemn and scholarly, Harvard's Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports convened in Cambridge to consider the portentous fact that in six years under Head Coach Lloyd Jordan, 56, the Crimson football team has won only 24 games while losing 31 and tying three. Few men in the room knew a...
Rebirth. With the end of World War II, Catini seemed shattered. Out of 40 fertilizer factories, 30 were damaged or destroyed, others looted by the Nazis. Machines, supplies, power, credit were short or nonexistent. The only surplus was labor; Catini was saddled with 47,000 workers who by law could...
Solemn and scholarly, Harvard's Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports convened in Cambridge to consider the portentous fact that in six years under Head Coach Lloyd Jordan, 56, the Crimson football team has won only 24 games while losing 31 and tying three. Few men in the room knew...
Like a thousand other villages in Italy's Mezzogiorno (midday, i.e., the south), Castelpoto (pop. 2,800) was bone-poor and bright Red. A medieval huddle of stone houses high in the Neapolitan Apennines, it had no sewage system, no running water, no schoolhouse, no movie, and almost no...