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Word: moro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carravaggios, Profane Love and David with Goliath's Head; Gauguin's The Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sale | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...which has produced 26,000 dead Japs) to the Eighth. The "Amphibious Eighth" staged the Visayan campaign, which MacArthur called "a model of what a light but aggressive command can accomplish in rapid exploitation." Then it went on to Sulu and Mindanao, where the grateful Sultan of Sulu and Moro chiefs presented to Eichelberger several handsome kris and bolo knives (which the General displays prominentlv at his thatched headquarters on Leyte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Ike & the Eighth | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

General. T.R. had his eye on him. T.R. wanted to promote him for the hard, impersonal way he had handled the Moro tribesmen in Mindanao. Over the heads of 862 officers, including 257 captains, 364 majors, no colonels, T.R. made John J. Pershing a brigadier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Old Soldier | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...workers. Instead of reviewing their role in the war effort, it revues it. It's Only the Beginning (produced by Soundmasters, Inc.) is a ginger-coated pep talk that points a moral with newsreel excerpts, talks shop in swing time, says "Thanks, boys" with dimpled knees like Peggy Moro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: G.M.'s Revue | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...very small groups (adults hate to look foolish), and starts with syllables, not words -(most languages, unlike English, are phonetic, lend themselves to syllabic teaching). Once an adult learns symbols for syllables, he is well on his way to reading. Laubach began teaching their dialect (Maranaw) to the Moslem Moros of Mindanao by joshing them into memorizing the appearance of ma, then pointing to the chart where mama occurs. When the Moro says mama, he has read the Maranaw for man. After as little as half an hour, a bright Moro can stumble through a page. After an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Literatizer | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

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