Word: rio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Brazil, last week, told that a British rubber syndicate is about to negotiate for a new plantation close to and competitive with that of Henry Ford. This move was hailed by the Brazilian press of Rio de Janeiro, last week...
Three meanings of the adjective sucio are dirty, filthy, obscene. Long ago, the natives of Salvador stigmatized one of their rivers by naming it the Rio Sucio. Last week the lower reaches of this stream near Quezaltepeque were choked with dead, floating, stinking fish. There had been, guessed geologists, a minor earthquake near the remote headwaters of El Rio Sucio...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Interior Department to promote conservation irrigation and flood control on the Pueblo Indian lands in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico...
...University debating team, it was announced last night by A. F. Reel '28, president of the Harvard Debating Council. The speakers from the Philippine Islands will represent the University of the Philippines, which is located at Manila. The other team will come from the University of Porto Rico, at Rio Piedras. At the same time the names were announced of the next two colleges against which the University speakers will debate in the second series of the Intercollegiate triangular debates...
...miscast half-caste, Dolores del Rio, shaking her sex-appeal in all directions, presses vigorously through the plot and against Walter Pidgeon the leading man. To her able acting in What Price Glory, such a specialized performance is a disappointing sequel. Nonetheless, it is sufficient to give an otherwise almost worthless picture some value beyond the pornographic...