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Word: rincon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every morning, promptly at 5:30, a burst of gunfire rattles the Colonia Juarez section of Mexico City. Old Don Carlos Rincon Gallardo y Romero de Torreros, Grandee of Spain, Marquis of Guadalupe, Duke of Regla, holder of 15 knighthoods, member of the Royal Corps of Gentlemen of Nobility of Madrid, last commander of President Porfirio Diaz' rurales,* is still waging symbolical battle against the Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The Old Guard | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Change of Heart. In Chicago, Gallic Morris, former principal of the Rincon (Ga.) High School, was spotted in a burlesque chorus: third girl from the left, front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Muralist Refregier gets $26,000 for a set of murals to be painted for the walls of a long L-shaped lobby in San Francisco's new Rincon Annex Post Office. His winning designs, chosen in an anonymous competition from among 82 sets of entries, illustrate the history of San Francisco from the Spanish conquest to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. Laid out in 27 dramatic panels, they show Grecoesque padres and armored discoverers, gaunt Indians paddling their canoes on California rivers, horny handed fortyniners grubbing for gold, sharpfeatured industrial workers building the engineering monuments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: WPA Alumnus | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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