Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Addressing the Society, famed Obstetrician Dr. Arnaldo de Moraes said: "One out of every 133 mothers in Rio de Janeiro die in childbirth. True this compares favorably with the mortality of soldiers, in the Great War, when one out of every 50 died. But gentlemen!-we must make it possible for Brazilian mothers to march joyously to maternity, without the forebodings of soldiers marching to battle...
...they used different and interesting styles of wrestling. The Bahian lout fought after the manner of Brazilian capoeira. This is the national style of fighting; it includes blows as well as grips and it was perfected, as might be imagined, by a huge band of Hoodlums who once terrorized Rio de Janeiro. Even kicks in the head are allowed and the Bahia Negro attempted these, without avail, against his little foeman...
...Alfred Agache is singularly unimpressed by Manhattan's sky line. M. Agache is French, an architect and employed by the city of Rio de Janeiro to beautify...
When M. Agache found recently that several enterprising Brazilian architects had laid foundations to build skyscrapers in Rio de Janeiro like those in New York, he immediately ordered all such progress stopped...
Original and romantic intent was to run 1451 miles-up and across Kansas, south through high Oklahoma and higher Texas, across the Rio Grande, then southwest across Mexico, 1,451 miles to the Gulf of California. The line from Kansas City to Wichita, Kan. is still "under construction." From Wichita one can ride 735 miles to Alpine, Texas, without changing cars-on a local train...