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Word: rio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council proceeded last week with its deliberations at Geneva (TIME, June 14), the Hispano-Brazilian position was crystallized by the authorities at Madrid and Rio de Janeiro into two "diplomatic affronts" to the League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Double Affront | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

Tearful Farewell. Senhor Afranio Mello Franco, the Brazilian representative, conveyed the umbrage of Rio de Janeiro by remaining "indisposed" throughout the week, thus leaving Brazil's nonpermanent seat ostentatiously vacant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Double Affront | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

...pressing business." The real reason was that Spain and Brazil both demand to be made permanent members of the Council, and the other nations demur. If the strain grows too acute one or both of them may even withdraw from the League-at least that was the talk in Rio de Janiero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slavery | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

Human slavery exists today in Abyssinia, Tibet, Afghanistan, the Hejaz, Morocco, Tripoli, the Libyan Desert, Rio de Oro, Liberia, China, Arabia, Egypt, the Sudan, Eritrea, French, British and Italian Somaliland, Angola and Mozambique, in most independent Mohammedan States, and in Nepal and the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slavery | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Geraldo Kuhimann, Brazilian botanist, has found that the native sapusaia plant produces an oil of one degree greater optical axis than the best Indian chalmoogra oil, heretofore the chief hope of curing leprosy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Leprosy | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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