Word: paran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasant life turned out not to be the satisfying life. Last August George, Marjorie and three of their children chucked the pools and parties (and George's Ford agency) for spiritual values. Last week, 6,000 miles from home, they were battling the jungles of Brazil's Paraná State as part of a new colony of Protestant missionaries who work the land to support their mission...
...good site for a beginning. "I thought we could set up a little community of, say, ten American families with tractors and trucks to support the mission with coffee and crops." he said. Some 200 U.S. families heartily agreed, bought tracts at $30 an acre for uncleared land in Paraná. Last August the first five Colaborer families, including the Presbyterian Suttons, got to work...
Since then, the Suttons, Sand and their Colaborers have drilled a 125-ft. well, installed a gasoline power generator, raised 63 sturdy cabins and a schoolhouse-church. They have built a bridge and spur road to short-cut the trip to the Paraná River, are starting another school, a separate church, and several more frame houses for the Colaborer families soon to follow. They hold Sunday and evening services for hundreds of Brazilians, show film strips, pass out Portuguese-language Bibles and prayer books. George Sutton, 35, has trimmed off 35 lbs., put calluses on his hands lugging buckets...
Sixteenth century Portuguese explorers heard rumors of unusually primitive Indians in the state of Paraná. They saw none of them, and the steep, jungle-tangled Serra dos Dourados mountains in the western part of the state deflected both settlers, missionaries and slave hunters. Nothing more was reported about the primitives until 1906, when a Czech scientist named Albert Fritsch made a field trip into the region and met some comparatively advanced Indians dragging three captives who spoke an unknown tongue. He discovered that the captives called themselves Xetsá (pronounced shee-tahss). He studied their language superficially and then...
...unfathomable wealth could simply be the lucky stroke of a pickax. If John or Louise Mackay had a thought beyond material success, the book does not suggest it. They knew what they wanted and were content when they got it, even though Louise may have partially agreed with Mrs. Paran Stevens, who said to her: "Odd, isn't it, how hard we work to get into a world which isn't after all very amusing...