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Word: pardo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fascist states believe in the totalitarian war. That put simply means that whenever they are beaten by armed forces they take their revenge on unarmed civilians. In this war, since the middle of November, they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they have been beaten at Carabanchel, they have been beaten on the Jarama. they have been beaten at Brihuega and at Córdoba, and they are being fought to a standstill at Bilbao. Every time they are beaten in the field they salvage that strange thing they call their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Creators' Congress | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...spark of humanity relieved the savage horror of the civil war last week. With Rightist corpses strewn over the El Pardo sector, just northwest of Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Cats & Seagulls | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

BARREN METAL-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). A sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Skin Diseases: Buenos Aires, Dr. Pedro L. Balina; Sao Paulo, Dr. Carlos Adolfo Linderberg; Mexico City, Dr. J. Gonzalez Uruena; Havana, Drs. Vicente Pardo Castello, Juan J. Mestre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pan-American Doctors | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...filed suit in the Supreme Court last week, attacking the Morgan Loan as "unconstitutional" because it had not been approved by the Spanish Parliament. Spain has had no Parliament for seven and a half years. On Monday King Alfonso slipped out of the city to his hunting preserve, the Pardo, to discuss with leaders of the Constitutional Party their demand that he withdraw from the scene while a national convention meet to decide whether Spain shall continue as a monarchy or become a republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Pesetas v. Parades | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

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