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Word: rio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep southeastern triangle of Texas is a land of aching distances and blazing sun, of endless, string-straight roads and dusty little towns. Oil derricks stand on its horizons, and beef cattle move unseen amid its dreary leagues of tangled mesquite brush. To the west, across the Rio Grande, lies Mexico, to the east the cloud-hung Gulf. Spanish is the country's common tongue; the greater part of its people are poor, underpaid Mexican-Americans. For more than a half-century, southeast Texas has been the Land of Parr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Land of Parr | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...wholly due to frost and drought, and they resented U.S. charges that they were gouging their U.S. customers. After President Eisenhower, himself a coffee lover, told a press conference that something should be done to reduce the price of the stuff ($1.10 a Ib. in U.S. groceries last week), Rio's newspaper Diario Carioca complained testily that "our brave and dignified friend [is] making a little demagoguery and sticking his spoon into the coffee case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Coffee Nerves | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Walter R. Fraley, who wanted to run a manually operated railroad handcar, was satisfied by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad which provided the car for the occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Suppressed & Unsuppressed | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale-will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference championship. ¶ In Melbourne, Australian Trackman John Landy, whose 4:02.1 mile is the third fastest on record, set an Australian two-mile mark of 8:58.2. ¶ In Rio de Janeiro, Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia's triple Olympic winner, running over a soggy track, missed his 10,000-meter world record (29:02.6) by less than a minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...Yorktown, Va. monument commemorating Washington's victory over Cornwallis, its eye fell on Norwegian-born Oskar Hansen, 61. Hansen was a monument-maker of some repute: he did the figures at Boulder Dam, a World War I memorial in Hinsdale, Ill., and a Columbus memorial in Rio de Janeiro. What was needed at Yorktown was a new statue of Liberty to replace the one decapitated by lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Battle of Yorktown | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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