Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this site there was not only almost as good a sky as in any part of South America, but excellent living facilities were obtainable for members of the Observatory's staff. In 1890, the main equipment for the station was sent to Arequipa. Throughout the years since then the Peruvian government has in every way possible assisted the efforts of the Observatory...
...Spaniards first met this valuable esculent near Quito onetime Peruvian possession, now capital of Ecuador. In 1553, a Seville chronicle mentions it under the name of "battata" or "papa." Later the potato spread to Italy and Belgium, where it did not "take." In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh planted it on his estate near Cork, Ireland, where is multiplied...
...John Coolidge arrived early in the week from a visit at his grandmother's, Mrs. Elmira Goodhue of Northampton, Mass. Another day among the President's callers was one Alberto Salomon, Peruvian, who told of wealth in Peru. The President was impressed with the growing importance of South American countries, expressed the wish that John learn Spanish next year at Amherst...
...Many a Peruvian wept in silence, many another sobbed aloud, as José Santos Chocano, "The Poet of America," the literary idol of Peru, was sentenced last week to three years' imprisonment for killing one of his enemies in what he alleged to be self-defense. While his countrymen sympathize, callous-minded foreigners may think that for José to have reached the age of 51 and have thus far escaped assassination or the gallows is a miracle...
Last November, Edwin Elmore, famed Peruvian publicist, once the revolutionary ally of José, fell a-quarreling with him in the doorway of a newspaper office at Lima. What occurred is uncertain. Poet José alleges that he, attacked by unarmed Publicist Elmore, drew his ever-ready revolver and killed in self-defense...