Word: peru
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...Lima, Peru...
...thousand feet up in the Andes* lives a race of men with enormous energy and cast-iron hearts. Dr. Carlos Monge of Lima, Peru last week described that race, the highest in the world, to scientists at the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary meeting (see p. 63). For his research he received an honorary degree. The thin Andes air kills weaklings. So the 12,000,000 Andes strong-hearts are the product of centuries of painful adaptation to scarcity of oxygen. In years of laboratory study. Dr. Monge found...
According to legend, a band of Incas fleeing through Peru in the sixteenth century captured a golden cross from the pursuing army of Pizarro, and to prevent its recapture planted it on the very topmost peak of a towering mountain whose steep ice-bound sides would be impassable to the Spaniards...
Newest member of the Harvard tweedy set, with a special predilection for gin, scotch, or possibly Coca-Cola if a sufficient amount of rum is added, is a South American Coati-Mondi recently brought back from the jungles of Peru...
REFERENCE "PERU CONTINUES TO FIGHT ECUADOR" TIME, SEPT.1, ALLOW ME TO CONVEY YOU MY APPRECIATION FOR IMPARTIAL UNABRIDGED ACCOUNT DEPLORABLE EVENTS AGAINST CONTINENTAL SOLIDARITY GOOD NEIGHBORLINESS WHICH HAS JUSTLY ALARMED OUR CONTINENT. ECUADOR CONTINUED BEING SUBJECT UNPROVOKED AGGRESSIONS BY PERU'S ARMED FORCES ALONG WHOLE 600-MILE FRONTIER NOTWITHSTANDING TRUCES JULY 26 AND 31 THROUGH GOOD OFFICES UNISTATES, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL. TIME'S TRUTHFUL STORY VIVIDLY PAINTS PERU'S INVASION AND BLITZ METHODS USED FOR OCCUPATION WHOLE PROVINCE OF PEACEFUL DEMOCRATIC ECUADOR...