Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mermaids & Indians. Early this year, Colombian-born Hector Robert Acebes Medina organized a small expedition to find the source of the Orinoco all over again and study Indian tribes along the way. According to Acebes, he was within 100 miles of his goal when Venezuelan authorities chased him back to San Felipe in Colombia. He had studied the Indians, and had seen, so he said, some toninas -strange mermaidlike mammals with breasts like a woman's and the strength to defeat alligators in aquatic battle. But he was not permitted to re-enter Venezuela and continue his travels...
...saucy mood. Taking the stand to argue that competitive bidding on railroad bonds should be compulsory, Young last week fixed a cross-examining defense counsel with a stare. Said Young icily: "You are one of the few men here who is wiser than I am." Federal Judge Harold R. Medina cuffed him right back. Young's campaign to get competitive bidding on the Cincinnati Union Terminal Association in 1939, said Medina, had been "absolutely erroneous and stated something that was not fact, and you put it in a way so there was no defense. You put on the heat...
...whatever happens]." The drug brought brief improvement. Radio Amateur Fred von Rekowsky, in New York City, kept up two-way talk with an amateur in Portugal, checking on the girl's progress. This week he heard the end of the chapter: despite everything, nine-year-old Branca Maria Medina dos Santos was dead of tuberculous meningitis...
There, a man named Ilidio Carlos Medina dos Santos had just read in his newspaper that a new drug, Varidase, might be just the thing for tuberculous meningitis. He wanted some, fast, for his little daughter Branca Maria...
Mohammed's success began when the city of Medina, torn by strife between two tribes, asked him to come and rule it. In 622, sending his followers on ahead, he transferred to Medina. This point, the Hegira, is the beginning of the Moslem calendar...