Word: rios
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...invaders stirred Rio to action. With the flying hordes momentarily stalled by rain and cool weather about 90 miles south of Sao Paulo's great coffee plantations, the first act of Brazil's new Chamber of Deputies was to vote an emergency $97,380 for grasshopper defense. Last week a Brazilian military plane headed south from the U.S. with a two-ton load of flamethrowers provided in a hurry by the U.S. Gammexane, modern man's best bet in such warfare, was unobtainable, and the Biological Institute of Sao Paulo had to concoct its own insecticide right...
...starting lineup for the game will be: Harshman, g; Merck, rf; Forster, lf; Del Rio, lh; Ogden, ch; Seamans or Mavor, rh; Smith, ro; Blanco, ri; Potter, cf; Ascarraga, lf; Corrigan, lo; The reserves on the defense will be Purinton, Carswell and Louira, while the forward line substitutes are Morse, Cate, and Dawson...
...Starting lineup for Harvard was: Harshman, g.; Purinton,r.f.; Merck,l.f.; Seamans, r.h.; Ogden, c.h.; Mavor, l.h.; Smith, o.r.; Azcarraga, i.r,; Potter, c.f.; Blanco, r.f.; Dawson, l.c. As his substitutes on the defense, MacDonald used Forster, Carswell, Del Rio, and Louria while Chen and Lazarus played on the forward line...
Thirty stories above the street, the world's largest clock told the time. In the huge, marbled lobbies of South America's tallest and finest railway station, loudspeakers poured out sambas. But the Government-operated Central do Brasil's new Dom Pedro II Station in Rio was incomplete behind its majestic façade. Train sheds had still to be roofed. At rush hour 150,000 commuters and fellow travelers jammed narrow platforms, were squirted on & off trains like toothpaste. The grandeur of Dom Pedro II Station could not mask the rickety state of Brazil...
...property, agents had had to scurry as far afield as Rio de Janeiro, and had had to garnish their cash with promises. Example: one owner, who pocketed a certified check for $250,000, wanted to remain on his job as elevator operator as long as his building stayed...